As I said before, the North made a fortune off slavery, but was quite content to live with it as long as it was confined to the South. This may be hypocrisy, but people are content to be hypocrites when money is involved.
If the institution was dying, why did the South cling to it so obstinately?
the answer as i said earlier was ONE thing = PROFIT.
PROFIT is the reason that the "oh, so wunnnerful, wunnerful" arrogant, sanctimonious, SELF-righteous, ELITIST DAMNyankees (who were "up to their eyes" IN the slave trade) SOLD their slaves, when slavery became UNPROFITABLE, rather than freeing them.)
btw, many of the so-called "abolitionists" were IN "the flesh trade" at the SAME time as they were decrying the trade as DIShonorable.(this is called, in case you didn't know, being a HYPOCRYTE!)
face it, quadrant, you have NO case & evidently little understanding of the actual sitiation.
btw, do you have a "reading comprehension problem"??? in #559 (the post you responded to in your post #564) i said that slavery would have died out within a generation at WORST & probably within 5-10 years.
free dixie,sw