[Non-Sequitur]

Slavery would have died on it's own in the south, it was already on decline.

Slavery was not on the decline, and it would have ended in the south only over the dead bodies of the slave owners. You only have to see the lengths that they went to to protect slavery in their constitution to realize that.

[wastoute]

And the slaves were treated so much worse than the Irish in the North and the Chinese in the West...

[varina davis]

Slavery was not on the decline, and it would have ended in the south only over the dead bodies of the slave owners.

Do you mean, Non, over the "dead bodies" of 3 to 6 percent of the entire Southern population -- which included free black slave owners. The remaining percentage of Southern farmers picked their own cotton.