Ravi
Diamond Member
So does an agricultural economy. I do not buy your argument.They would cut into whites's jobs. A successful industrial economy needs a working class.Why to you imagine slaves would not do manufacturing work?The argument is about the balance that produces the most efficient economy. Slaves were not going to do the manufacturing work that non-salves would need. The less that field work that was necessary would be reflected in the reduction of slavery. Slavery would have become obsolete.Are you going to make the case that slaves weren't intelligent enough to work in factories or that non-slaves wouldn't do farm work?Not the type that would have been part of an industrialized society. Slaves did essentially the same work that illegals do now.Are you kidding me? Plantation slaves cost non-slaves jobs.