[Paleo Conservative]

I have a question for all you South lovers, though. Let's say the Confederate States had been allowed to secede. What reason would they have had to NOT continue slavery

On the other hand, the Confederacy would have been recognized as a separate country. Its goods would have been subjected to tarrifs which cannot be applied to goods made or traded within the states. With the South no longer a part of the Union, the balance in Congress would be strongly shifted towards opponents of slavery. They could then impose high tarrifs on goods made with slave labor.

[Paleo Conservative]

tarrifs = tariffs

My eyes are getting tired.

[Green Knight]

Damn, this is an old thread. But anyway, good point on that one. Still, the north isn't the world. The south would still be able to turn a profit from products made with slave labor sold to most of the rest of the world. So where's the incentive in ending slavery?

Not trying to be insulting or anything. I'd honestly like to see a realistic possibility as to how that could have been achieved, as well as equal rights for blacks. Me, I've been torn for a while, now, on the Civil War. While on the one hand, I agree that secession is right, on the other hand, I wouldn't have liked for a slave-holding nation to have continued. Like I said, torn.