[Non-Sequitur]

The end of slavery down south would have required a cheaper alternative for the requirements of plantation agriculture. Cotton farming was a labor intensive process and one which defied automation - the first mechanical cotton-picker was not introduced until the mid 1940's. So absent a cheaper and more convenient source of labor, or a collapse in the profitability of growing cotton, there would have been no incentive for the south to abandon slavery for decades after the war.

[stand watie]

why do you keep repeating this SILLY lie?

the first mechanical cottonpicker was patented in the 1850s-it required a team of 8-12 mules and ONE person to operate the machine. anybody,with the time to look up the patent records, can do so.

the industrial revolution, NOT damnyankee bayonets ended slavery.

for dixie LIBERTY>

[stand watie]

the ONLY reason the mechanical cottonpicker was NOT used in the south after the WBTS was that the filthy,hateful damnyankees had so destroyed the economy that nobody could afford one!

FREE dixie NOW,sw