Financial incentives for what? Not having slaves?Originally Posted by Androidpk
Financial incentives for what? Not having slaves?
What would have been your preference? Slave states demanded slaves be counted as a whole person for representation, even though slaves couldn't vote for pro-abolitionist candidates, so they could have dominated Congress? Non slave states dug in their heels and demanded slaves not be counted at all? This all led to war? That was Kelly's point. You know the saying; a good compromise is both sides walking away not getting everything they wanted.
Of course in the general sense that slavery is bad it was a bad compromise but abolishing slavery wasn't going to happen that day.
Last edited by Tgo01; 10-31-2017 at 04:45 PM.
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Abolishing slavery after the Civil War was the best thing that could happen for plantation owners, to be honest. Now they didn't have to pay to cloth and feed their workers and they could pay them next to nothing. It was cheaper for them. It was, of course, also better for the former slaves... They had a few more rights. Jim Crowe kept them down for a long time.
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The entire economy of the southern states was based on slavery. You'd have to subsidize their entire economy.
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Well, I imagine if we had had a compromise instead of the Civil War, there eventually would have been incentives for plantation owners to switch to more mechanized farming. Eventually slavery was going to become more expensive than it was worth and it would have been legislated away without much of a fuss. I'm fairly positive slavery wouldn't exist now, but African American rights probably would be a little behind what they are now.
The Civil War answered more than just the slavery question though. I think it was kind of important for us to have it.
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