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<blockquote data-quote="zubenelgenubi" data-source="post: 5077188" data-attributes="member: 63706">I&#039;ve seen this before. I believe the point of the video was to highlight that it was the Republicans who were into ending slavery. I think it&#039;s more complicated than just that the north wanted to end slavery and the racist southerners just loved having African slaves so much they were willing to lay down the lives of their sons to keep them. Imagine if you had millions tied up in equipment to run your business, and the government suddenly seized your equipment and you had to start paying to rent the equipment, you&#039;d be pretty pissed too. If the mechanical equipment to efficiently pick cotton were available at the time, and the money spent fighting the civil war was instead invested in modernizing the southern operations, I doubt there would have been a civil war. Sure, there would have been hold-outs, but they would have fallen in line eventually.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="zubenelgenubi, post: 5077188, member: 63706"] I've seen this before. I believe the point of the video was to highlight that it was the Republicans who were into ending slavery. I think it's more complicated than just that the north wanted to end slavery and the racist southerners just loved having African slaves so much they were willing to lay down the lives of their sons to keep them. Imagine if you had millions tied up in equipment to run your business, and the government suddenly seized your equipment and you had to start paying to rent the equipment, you'd be pretty pissed too. If the mechanical equipment to efficiently pick cotton were available at the time, and the money spent fighting the civil war was instead invested in modernizing the southern operations, I doubt there would have been a civil war. Sure, there would have been hold-outs, but they would have fallen in line eventually. [/QUOTE]

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