“The cotton gin and other mechanical implements would have taken slavery down fast.”
What do you mean by slavery would have been taken down fast?
By fast do you mean the next day, the next month, the next year, next decade or next century?
And if were you and your family held in slavery, how has would you want to be emancipated?
The next day, the next month, the next year, next decade or next century?
The author tries to make the case that slavery would have went on and on and on. It might have lasted another generation as economically viable. Once it got to that point it would have been abolished.
No doubt, any slave would have wanted to be emancipated yesterday. I don’t like though some leftist author implying we’d have had slaves for another 100 years either. Too much blood was spilt fighting the Civil War for some jerk to then come along and rewrite history. Embellishing the argument with garbage facts serves nothing.
I think it’s more poignant that we as a country weren’t even willing to wait a generation to let slavery come to it’s natural end, but were willing to fight a bloody war right then to settle it.