What automation? Southern farming techniques didn't really mechanize until the 1940s. And far from dying, slavery was booming in the lower south. The slave population of Texas was growing fast and the price of slaves was increasing. That doesn't much look like a dying insitutition.
he just plain LIES. (by either omission or commission.) in this case, he fails to say that southern agriculture was "set back" by at least 1/2 a century by the WBTS. (that is called a LIE by OMMISSION. he knows better, but chooses NOT to "do better".)
to all, be warned: NOTHING posted by "bubba" should be taken as fact, absent INDEPENDENT proof.
to all: further, slavery was DYING by 1860 in the USA. absent the war, it MIGHT have survived as much as 20 more years (my guess is 5-10 years, given how quickly agriculture was improving/mechanizing.).
as a LARGE percentage of the DEAD Americans, who lost their lives during/immediately after the WBTS, were BLACK (both slave & free), a MILLION DEAD seems a REALLY high BLOOD-price to pay to end slavery earlier than it would have ended,otherwise.
free dixie,sw
he just plain LIES. (by either omission or commission.) in this case, he fails to say that southern agriculture was "set back" by at least 1/2 a century by the WBTS. (that is called a LIE by OMMISSION. he knows better, but chooses NOT to "do better".)
to all, be warned: NOTHING posted by "bubba" should be taken as fact, absent INDEPENDENT proof.
to all: further, slavery was DYING by 1860 in the USA. absent the war, it MIGHT have survived as much as 20 more years (my guess is 5-10 years, given how quickly agriculture was improving/mechanizing.).
as a LARGE percentage of the DEAD Americans, who lost their lives during/immediately after the WBTS, were BLACK (both slave & free), a MILLION DEAD seems a REALLY high BLOOD-price to pay to end slavery earlier than it would have ended,otherwise.
free dixie,sw