Toro
Diamond Member
Before the war Southerners owned folks too.
The Black Codes were generally a Southern thing, another attempt to implement slavery light on Black folk.
After the War, The Civil Rights Act took effect, but them Southerners pissed all over them in their attempts to subjugate and enslave.
Another reason why the stupid notion that slavery would have died of it's accord anyway is just a huge pile ofcrap.
It would have died eventually.
1940 maybe? 1960?
Well before that, by the 1890s at least, given the advent of new economic models and technical developments related to industrialization. By that time the ‘slave’ would be obsolete and not economically feasible.
Maybe, I don't know. Slavery held back the South economically because it discouraged industrialization and urbanization. However, that is a more likely reason for the disbandment of slavery than any enlightened arguments of the inherent Rights of Man and freedom propagated by the defenders of the Confederacy today.