re: #119 Targetpractice

Ayep, slavery goes, they lose their economy. Or, rather, they have to start compensating their former slaves for their work, something that man of the plantation rich were never going to accept.

It’s why I always get a kick out of the Neo-Confederates who like to talk about how we could have had a peaceful emancipation, with slavery gradually going away. A fantasy that has kept going for decades.

No, the slaveholders fully intended to expand slavery into the Western territories. Breeding slaves was a big money-maker for them, and they weren’t about to give it up.