outlawauron on 18 December 2012
| snyps said: If I could, I would fight for the south. They weren't fighting to keep slaves, I mean they just invented the cotton gin. It was now cheaper to pay low wages than house and keep slaves. They were fighting for sovereignty, something every state was guaranteed when they joined the confederacy. |
Manufacturing would have continued its movement throughout the country and slavery would have ceased to exist. While you could argue that the manufacturing economy in the north was worse than slave labor, it was all in plan to get to where we are now.
