you give them too much credit for "brains". they deserve NONE, as they in general:
1. did NOT see that the coming of the Industrial Revolution to agriculture was about to KILL slavery as a PROFIT-making system,
2. didn't even figure out until the late WBTS period that they were about to lose their "investment in human flesh" AND
3. MOST of the slavers (both North & South) were DUMB enough to believe that lincoln & his cohorts would "be true to their word" & would,as promised by many members of the "union high command", would protect slavery PERMANENTLY! even lincoln said that he would support a Constitutional amendment to protect slavery PERMANENTLY!(lincoln's "word of honor" was about as reliable as wee willie klintoon's!)
finally, even a cursory reading of the FIRST PERSON accounts of former SLAVES, published in the "Slave Commentaries" of the 1930s WPA project, disclose that you are 100% WRONG about the treatment of probably over 95% of slaves.
your analogy to "children" is NOT well-taken, as the abusive parents do NOT have a direct profit motive in being decent to their children. sorry, but you are again WRONG, because abusive parents are only "garbage in human form", are psycotic and/or just criminals (too bad that we stopped "horsewhipping" child abusers!).
go do some more reading from other than REVISIONISTS & we'll talk.
free dixie,sw
Still shouting and name calling. over and out.