You might want to crack a book sometime. Or did you get your history from some liberal?
Jefferson Davis was already preparing his slaves, as were many southern slave holders, to be freed men. He had provided schools for them, he alotted them lands to grow and sell their vegetables and keep their money and learn how to manage it, and he let them set up their own court systems to deal with criminals in their midst.
It’s mind boggling when you crack a book and read facts instead of drinking the kool-aide.
The fact is, Lincoln really didn’t give a flip about slavery, he used it as a tool to rally Northern troops to kill off their own neighbors....
You might want to try to actually do some reading from someplace other than Southron myth sites yourself. The fact of the matter is that Davis owned slaves his entire adult life, having as many as 115 at one time. In all those decades as a slave owner do you know how many he voluntarily freed? None. Zero, zip, nada, zilch. So if he spent all his time preparing them for freedom then were they just slow learners or something?
In March of 1861 Davis said, "We recognize the negro as God and God's Book and God's Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be." That does not sound like a man who was prepared to free anyone.
It’s mind boggling when you crack a book and read facts instead of drinking the kool-aide.
So when are you going to get your mind boggled?
The fact is, Lincoln really didn’t give a flip about slavery, he used it as a tool to rally Northern troops to kill off their own neighbors....
I can provide any number of quotes from Lincoln indicating his opposition to slavery. Can you provide any quotes from Davis indicating the same?
Slavery in the South was doomed anyway, and would have died off within a few more decades.
Slavery was dependent upon abundant cheap land, because slave labor is so inefficient. A slave works just hard enough to avoid punishment. A free man farming his own land works harder, because he's working for himself. Consequently, he can pay more for land than a slave owner and still make a profit.
As the US's population expanded, and the available farmland was bought up, the slave owners would have been squeezed out unless they managed to get special legislation passed to protect their status from competition.