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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1708939" data-attributes="member: 22662"><p>No.  You seemed to suggest that the South had no choice but to secede and that the resulting war was the only way slavery was going to end.  Wk showed in his time line that slavery across the world was coming to an end.  Industrial technology existed to (with development) make slavery obsolete but the south stubbornly and stupidly refused to embrace it.  Instead they clung to their "way of life" and paid dearly for it.  Slavery could have ended quietly in the industrial revolution.   The South chose relinquish it at the end of a gun.</p></blockquote><p></p>