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To: GingisK

true, but steam driven tractors didn’t come into use until 1890s and a successful cotton harvester was not invented until the late 1920s. So by your criteria, slavery might have lasted into the 1930s.


111 posted on 09/08/2021 8:21:50 AM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: Bull Snipe

Slavery was replaced by Share cropping as practiced in some places it was not much above slavery. Tractors and other mechanical farming ended that. So in a rough sense slavery lasted till the 1930s.


123 posted on 09/08/2021 8:40:04 AM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Bull Snipe

I get what you mean, but steam traction engines had existed since the 1850s and probably in solid usage by the 1870s.

And there were other great advances. Such as Cyrus McCormick’s reaper and John Deere’s steel plow. The Industrial Revolution included much of what we think as just “agricultural”.


131 posted on 09/08/2021 8:48:54 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Bull Snipe
I did indicate that slavery was doomed. I did not apply a timeline. There are a lot of issues that caused the Civil War; and, slavery wasn't the one most important to the Southerners.

Slavery is heinous. So is tyranny. We have a great deal of the latter right now; yet, nobody seems ready to lift a finger in order to stop it. What happened 180 years ago doesn't have the urgency of what we face right now in our Nation.

138 posted on 09/08/2021 9:13:46 AM PDT by GingisK
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