[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.

[Paleo Conservative]

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?

The US could also have used its navy to blockade Confederate ports to prevent goods made by slaves to be traded in world markets.