Sure sure. Farmers have always had SUCH an easy life. It was no doubt easy to earn a living getting a share of the crop production after three hours of labor a day; while people who owned their farms were living a life of total ease getting ALL of the profit and produce from their own leisurely work schedule./s
Do you think the former slaves would have been MORE ready for freedom after another hundred years of slavery - or less?
“Do you think the former slaves would have been MORE ready for freedom after another hundred years of slavery - or less?”
I don’t think that is the question.
Since slavery was peacefully eradicated in the Western hemisphere by 1888 (Brazil), the real question is, “Was it worth over one million American lives to end it twenty three years earlier?”