[End The Hypocrisy]

Arguably the Industrial Revolution would have made the institution of slavery hardly worth the expense and predictable risks which are reminiscent of L.A. rioting or Washington D.C. burning. Ironically though, the slavery issue was used to convert the Old South into a source of cheap labor and bureaucrat-enriching tax revenues. To keep Southerners subservient despite such injustices, the Northern-based teachers' unions opportunistically kept tuition vouchers from being able to appear lawfully. As I said before, though...just as some said the Baltic Republics had lost their independence to the Soviet Union, the South shall rise again (one way or another). Let's not forget the USA's record high $6.3 trillion dollar national debt...

[WhiskeyPapa]

Arguably the Industrial Revolution would have made the institution of slavery hardly worth the expense ...

It was the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 that helped cause feelings against slavery to wane. The cotton gin made producing cotton by gang slave labor profitable.

Mechanical cotton -pickers- on the other hand were not invented until the 1940's.

Anopther 80 years of slavery is easy to contemplate though, right?

Walt