To: Pontiac
Automation (the cotton gin, tractors and the like) would have made slaves uneconomical to keep in any large numbers.The cotton gin made American slavery really profitable for the first time.
53 posted on
03/30/2007 10:25:49 PM PDT by
Sherman Logan
(I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
To: Sherman Logan
The cotton gin made American slavery really profitable for the first time. How did the economics of slavery compare with those of immigrant workers? I'd think that immigrant workers would make more economic sense.
56 posted on
03/30/2007 11:15:59 PM PDT by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
To: Sherman Logan
YES & ONLY until machines were invented to replace "stoop labor". fyi, by 1860, such machines had been invented.
slavery, absent the WBTS, might have survived for another TEN years. (fyi, N-S knows better. he CHOOSES to be DECEITFUL in saying 70 years.)
KILLING a MILLION people (especially since MANY of the dead WERE slaves!!!) seems a HUGE price to pay for ending slavery ten years early.
free dixie,sw
128 posted on
03/31/2007 3:31:56 PM PDT by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
To: Sherman Logan
in MANY cases, the invading union army FREED the slaves from being ALIVE & nothing else.
slaves & "freepersons of colour" were FREQUENT targets for RAPE,ROBBERY, ARSON, TORTURE, ABUSE & MURDER by the invaders, as NOTHING was done to the criminals who did those crimes, as many union officers considered the "non whites" to be "something LESS than human".
free dixie,sw
131 posted on
03/31/2007 3:36:14 PM PDT by
stand watie
("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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