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To: SeekAndFind

Seems like the Civil War decided this. The industrial North, which didn’t have slavery, overcame the slave-driven rural South with economics. We had indentured slavery from the colonists, but it was a black ‘owner’ who filed the court case ultimately legalizing involuntary slavery.


33 posted on 09/26/2019 9:15:03 AM PDT by RideForever
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To: RideForever
Seems like the Civil War decided this. The industrial North, which didn’t have slavery, overcame the slave-driven rural South with economics.

No, it overcame them with four times the population which could keep killing off it's young men at a rate far higher than the South could match.

Economics didn't win the war. Sheer numbers of able bodied men and a government willing to sacrifice them is what won the war.

44 posted on 09/26/2019 11:05:40 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no oither sovereignty.")
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To: RideForever

It is entirely debatable whether the immigrant wage slavery of the north differed much from the chattel slavery of the south.


60 posted on 09/26/2019 9:46:54 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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