re: #87 EmmmieG

Okay, here are some numbers for you:

Amount spent by the Union: $6,190,000,000 on the war,
$3,300,000,000 on pensions for the veterans.

There were four million slaves.

We could have bought each slave for about $1,550 dollars for what the civil war cost us. A little less than $2,400 if you count the pensions.

The South is even more hosed. Since they lost their slaves anyway, they could have let the slaves go for free for less.

AND all of those dead young men would have been financial contributors.

I believe ending slavery was the right thing to do, and I’m glad I live in a country without slavery, I just think we picked the wrong way to do it. I don’t know about un-Christian, but definitely the bloodiest, most costly way.

You fail at recognize that after selling the slaves to the north, the south would aquire new ones.