US Politics on Yik Yak | If the confederacy had survived it’s possible that it would have ended slavery 20-30 years later like how Brazil, one of the largest slave states of all time, did. Because of Industrial Revolution . Slavery is economically inferior to industrialization

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If the confederacy had survived it’s possible that it would have ended slavery 20-30 years later like how Brazil, one of the largest slave states of all time, did. Because of Industrial Revolution . Slavery is economically inferior to industrialization

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I think abolition would have come eventually, but it must be remembered that industrialized Richmond used slaves in their iron foundries and wheat mills. And the agrarian economy of the South continued, with sharecropping and convict leasing being used into the early 1900s.

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