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Northerners 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.

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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Agriculture still has not eliminated manual labor, son.

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- tan00k@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Oh OK
  
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  - scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.
    
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