Quote Originally Posted by Tgo01 View Post
What would have been your preference? Slave states demanded slaves be counted as a whole person for representation 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.
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.