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Originally Posted by Guest
Everyone seems to forget that slavery was introduced and thrived in the Southern Colonies by virtue of the endorsement and encouragement of the British Monarchy .
The vast number of years during which sadly slavery became rooted as an institution in what is today the US was under the control of the Monarchy .
It took until after the War of 1812 for our very young and untested system of centralized self-government began to establish itself . Finally 5 decades later the ugly
practice of the enslavement of human beings became regarded as so repulsive that citizens went to war against it .
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Bull...a very few were repulsed by it.
People didn't want slavery because slave owners undercut prices because of their cheap labor. "Free States" came about because white people didn't want to have to compete with slave labor.
Slavery didn't end, and wouldn't have ended, without mechanization, machinery, engines, doing the work of hundreds.
Without the overhead of having people to take care of.
The "history" is wrong, the "why" is wrong. It's written to make us feel good about our nation. So we support it, like a sports team. Slavery ended because it was cheaper to end it.