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To: cowboyusa
The Founders were trying to hem slavery in,

No they weren't. God had already hemmed it in for them. Slavery couldn't grow anywhere in the territories because the climate wouldn't allow the creation of plantations.

Slavery was stuck in the South and couldn't get beyond it even if they wanted it to.

Given a few more decades, it likely would have dissipated in the South too.

38 posted on 02/12/2024 12:22:50 PM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Slaves could have been used for other purposes than picking cotton, like mining and other things. If the South had stayed in the Union, slavery might have lasted till the mide early 20th Century.


43 posted on 02/12/2024 12:29:01 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEgermany in 1837. FTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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