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Originally Posted by Guest
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.
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One major reason that it took time to get enough political pressure to end slavery once the Federal Gvt came into being and developed some " footing " was due to the fact that the US was basically a Nation made up of small family farms .
Most people had at best an 8th grade education . Newspapers did not have wide circulation . The far majority of people in the North had never seen a Black person let alone a slave .
They learned of this deplorable human condition from their local Preacher on Sunday Mornings . Most of the Northern farm boys who went off to fight the South thought that they were going on some grand adventure that would last only a few weeks and would enhance his standing in his home community and church .