Well, no. Because if northerners had insisted on abolition as a condition of Union, there would have been no Union.
As I think I’ve repeatedly noted, slavery at the Convention is a much bigger issue in our eyes than it was at the time.
Everybody believed it would just fade away. So they simply let the sleeping dog lie, on the theory he would just die in his sleep.
Ah, you got the joke. Glad someone did. :)
Everybody believed it would just fade away. So they simply let the sleeping dog lie, on the theory he would just die in his sleep.
It would have but for Massachusetts Yankee Eli Whitney. He flipped the profitability equation.
Had he not made it so economically viable, it would likely have succumbed to the social and moral forces that were sweeping it away elsewhere.