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since slavery was DYING an UNlamented natural death, due to advances in agriculture, your argument falls of it's own small weight.

the coming of animal & steam drawn devices DOOMED chattel slavery, as mules/oxen/horses & tractors work CHEAPER than people. (kill the PROFIT & every commercial institution DIES!)

fwiw, this weekend i went to a southside VA town (on a religious retreat)& actually stood next to a 1851 MOLINE Steam Traction engine (located in the City park), which according to the placard from the Virginia Historical Commission, "would do the same or greater amount of work as a HUNDRED & FIFTY LABORERS, working with hand tools" AND "the machine was retired from ACTIVE USE & placed on fixed display in October, 1948". (emphasis: MINE)

so much for the OUTRIGHT LIES of the LEFTIST/REVISIONISTS, who claimed on several threads that the "Steam Traction Machines" either did not work and/or they were "Primitive & UNusable"!

i guess the "bottom line" is that certain of the damnyankee coven's "sources" which claimed otherwise either do NOT exist and/or the "poster" wasn't intelligent enough to understand his/her "source" to the contrary.

rotflol AT THEM!

free dixie,sw .

Simple question, Watie, although I know you won't answer. If those steam traction engines were so practical, why weren't they adopted earlier, not just in the south but anywhere? Why was almost all plowing done by animal power until the first quarter of the 20th Century?

Oh, and as for your latest anecdote about seeing the 1851 Moline tractor, that's as much a barefaced lie as anything you've ever said. You see, the Moline Implement Company wasn't founded until 1868, as the Moline Plow Company, created by two guys who had formerly worked for John Deere. They made plows and other implements and didn't go into the tractor business until 1915, with the Moline-Universal tractor.

Really, Watie, you must try harder.