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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (14174)12/9/1997 4:09:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Slavery was becoming a losing proposition by the time of the Civil War, and was continuing largely because of its own inertia. Keep in mind that slaves were the responsibility of their masters even when they were too old to work; maybe not the best of retirement plans, but certainly one of the earliest. If you check, you will find that all the other slave societies of the Western Hemisphere abandoned slavery in the mid to late 1800s, too. But all of the others managed the transition without a terrible war. It simply didn't make economic sense, and would surely have ended peacefully in America too, if not for the other sources of hostility between the sections in the U.S.
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