“Those old, white, rich forefathers of ours formed a nation and GOT RID of it within 100 years”
For 76 years those old, white, rich forefathers, increased the slave population from 694,000 in 1790 to 3,953,000 in 1860. They made millions of dollars off of the labor of those slaves. It took a bloody 4 year war and an amendment to the Constitution to end the practice of slavery in this country.
“It took a bloody 4 year war and an amendment to the Constitution to end the practice of slavery in this country.”
This article raises serious questions about the popular belief that the war was fought to end slavery.
If, as many believe, the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
“It took a bloody 4 year war and an amendment to the Constitution to end the practice of slavery in this country.”
While what you posted is true it need not have happened. Several articles analyzing the 1850s thru the 1900s imply that slavery would most likely have died out by the early 1900s. The cotton gin had already been developed and other farming mechanical inventions (tractors, etc) were coming online. As the plantation owners and other farmers mechanized, there would be no need for slave labor. After all it is far cheaper to feed a tractor than a human being.
“For 76 years those old, white, rich forefathers, increased the slave population from 694,000 in 1790 to 3,953,000 in 1860. “
Correction: 24% of free blacks held slaves as we. They, too, were guilty of the slave trade.