[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery wasn't practical and it offended many slave owners who did it just to be competitive. Most paid their slaves a small salary and many free slaves bought their own freedom with those wages. Automation was coming on strong - the cotton gin, steam engines and soon to come combustion engines. Good people were looking for a better way. There were more good people than bad, so generational slavery was doomed.

I'm sorry but that whole paragraph is flat out ridiculous.

[FreeAtlanta]

well, I agree with your first 2 words. ;-)