[StoneWall Brigade]

Yes if the had the won war Slavery would have been over with it was already a dying institution at start of the war. Add the advancement of farm technology, and the religious reveals breaking out it would have ended in short, amont of time.

[jmacusa]

No, I didn’t ask if it would have ended. I asked would the South have freed them.

[WarIsHellAintItYall]

For many weeks I have seen interesting comments here that are truly misleading.
My direct and indirect family ties date to the mid 1700s. They were engaged in ship building and finance. Some here would recognize names.
For decades following the use of the gin, the planters controlled their own cotton industry. Southern cotton was shipped directly from southern ports by its owners or brokers to the textile mills of England or Lowell.
During the three decade period before 1860, with our politicians action, our shippers forced the cotton trade to into our ships. First, the Navigation Acts authored by Congress at the turn of the century had established protectionist laws favoring our shipping over foreign interests.
Southrons were required by law to either use our ships for their shipping, or pay to the Treasury compensation for their use of foreign ships. Foreign ships were prohibited by law from engaging in coastal trade between US harbors. Federal law cut them out.
The laws highly discouraged southern boat builders from becoming involved in the shipping business by prohibiting their purchase of finished ships from overseas.
To our benefit and profit and with the aid of Federal laws, we came to dominate the carrying trade of the South.
As our trade in cotton increased, our financial people saw opportunity and began sending agents south to purchase all the cotton they could, and ship it on our packet ships to England and Europe. Direct purchase of cotton by the “factors” enabled the Southern growers to quickly turn a profit instead of waiting months for the cotton to be sold, and the money to return to them. But this benefit also cut their profits.
Business was business and our men in Washington ensured that we would have most of it.

[DoodleDawg]

Yes if the had the won war Slavery would have been over with it was already a dying institution at start of the war. Add the advancement of farm technology, and the religious reveals breaking out it would have ended in short, amont of time.

Do you really believe that? What do you base it on?