[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

[catfish1957]

Go away liberal...this is a conservative forum.

[End The Hypocrisy]

>>>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?<<<


Had the South not been trampled upon, who's to say that mechanical cotton pickers wouldn't have been invented in the South much sooner than you're saying it was?