The Mikado
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« on: July 02, 2010, 04:59:08 PM » |
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Outmoded systems don't die on their own, they have to be killed. Slavery may have been on a declining profitability slide, but that wasn't going to end slavery by itself: the prospect of Emancipation would've been too terrifying to Southern Whites to voluntarily go through. Even if certain states where slavery had become more or less completely outmoded like VA, MD, and DE eventually abolished it, I could see it surviving in the Deep South until the end of the 19th century if not longer.
There sure as hell wouldn't have been a 14th Amendment equivalent: Giving ex-slaves citizenship would've been an impossible sell without a South that didn't have a say in the matter.
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