>>Bull Snipe wrote: “They should have. The South would have kept their slaves and saved 600,000 lives.”
Spoken like a true Lincoln cultist. Why not government-subsidized emancipation, like the civilized nations of that era?
Why not? Because Abraham Lincoln was an uncivilized tyrant. His agenda was not about slavery, but making himself and his crony friends filthy rich.
Mr. Kalamata
Because Jefferson Davis was an uncivilized tyrant. His agenda was all about slavery, plus making himself and his crony plantation, slave owning friends filthy rich.
In every case other than the U.S., slavery was ended by government action and with the strong opposition of the slave owners themselves. The U.S could not have enacted a mandatory compensated emancipation plan because the Constitution would not permit it. A voluntary emancipation plan would fail because there is no reason to believe that the slave holders themselves would be willing to participate. That's why not.
If the South had won the war would they have freed the slaves?