Remember the North at that time was importing hordes of the poor from Europe and putting them up in atrocious tenement housing with almost zero public sanitation so they could work in horrendously unsafe factories....no OSHA, no child labor laws, no tort law, etc. If/when they died or got mangled in industrial accidents, well tough crap for them and there were plenty more European serfs coming over to take their place. The prospect of being able to eventually gather up a few nickels to rub together and go obtain land via homesteading (land ownership...the impossible dream in Europe) would keep drawing them over the Atlantic no matter how bad conditions were back in the East.
The North hardly treated its own wage slaves any better at the time.
“...at that time.”
Current Democrats have not moved on.
“Remember the North at that time was importing hordes of the poor from Europe”
You’re talking about my grandparents.
They moved west and found land to homestead.
They did fine.
European poor came here on their own looking for a better life - they weren't being 'imported'... but the situation with illegals IS slaveryLite - and it's disgusting.
The North hardly treated its own wage slaves any better at the time.
It was economic slavery. Yet, it was STILL better than conditions in Europe at the time. Many of those conditions were similar to serfdom and feudalism. The tales my GF told of his youth were chilling.
Even so, many millions improved their lot tremendously and the legacy of their efforts made this country the greatest. Now, much of the time we just import welfare slaves to be dumblecrat voters.They don’t want to pick crops, either.
Nope, the Irish were signed up for the military as soon as they hit the docks.
I honestly don’t think the legal immigration of Europe is comparable to the slavery of the south.
While the slavery of the south is, actually, comparable to the illegal immigration of cartel slaves shipped across the border today.
The women and young female children are raped. They’re all disregarded as chattel in packed transports at whim, even when it kills them.
Oh, and hey, getting ransomed or murdered is what they CHOSE to do every bit as much as the slaves made their choices a couple hundred years ago.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to be democrats as apologists for the slave trade then and now.
One Southerner made that argument to critize Borthern Capitalism, and he called slavery a form of Socalism, he name eas Fritzhigh, I belive.