Reply #34: Wow.

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I've never heard a non-southerner agree with all that. My take, too, though, from this distance, it's sure hard to judge. Slavery as an economic force was doomed, and I think in less than 50 years. An evolution away from it may have allowed people's attitudes to change, rather than causing people to sleep inton defiance/denial mode for a century. Although, there's no gaurantee that slavery would have ended just because it wasn't profitable. Scaled back, of course, but manors were adicted to their house servants.

That's just a "couldhavehappened" scenario, though, and it's easy for a white guy like me to say it. On the ground, at the time, with the horrors of slavery stealing so many lives... It's hard to say Lincoln was wrong. It was one of those times that there was no good solution, only two bad ones to choose. At least Lincoln made his choice work.