[ladyjane]

I like the result of that period with is a slave free country (regardless of originator) compared to one that was based on slavery and agriculture.

You seem to be ignoring the factory owners in the north who made millions producing textiles. They had 'slaves' too, some were eight and ten year old children who lived in conditions that were worse than those in the south. Many of them ended up with brown lung disease, if they didn't die or lose a limb in the factory.

There were good and bad in the north and in the south. There were both black and white slaves and believe it or not -- there were black slave owners. Lots of them.

[Non-Sequitur]

They had 'slaves' too, some were eight and ten year old children who lived in conditions that were worse than those in the south. Many of them ended up with brown lung disease, if they didn't die or lose a limb in the factory.

And if you asked any of them if they would like to change places with a slave - to be bought and sold at a whim, to have absolutely no rights whatsoever, to see their family split up and sold whenever the master wanted, to be beaten or crippled if they tried to run off, to know that they were nothing but property and their children were property and their grandchildren would be property - how many do you think would have jumped at the chance?

[KingArthur305]

You seem to be ignoring the factory owners in the north who made millions producing textiles. They had 'slaves' too, some were eight and ten year old children who lived in conditions that were worse than those in the south. Many of them ended up with brown lung disease, if they didn't die or lose a limb in the factory. May May may those poor workers. They got money and they got to go home a drink or have good sex after a long days labor. They lived short lives but that was true for everyone. So they sould have been farming?