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tan00k@lemmy.world 2 months agoNortherners weren’t simply more high minded than southerners concerning slavery - industrialization lessened their dependence on slaves to the point where they could abandon slavery without the economy crumbling.
Presumably this would happen in the south as they industrialized as well.
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Agriculture still has not eliminated manual labor, son.
tan00k@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh OK
scarabic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep the South was invested in agriculture, to this day a labor-intensive sector, largely due to advantages in climate and geography which were basically fixed. So how again would slavery have spontaneously ended in the South again? It’s a question - please answer it.