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To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (29003)	6/15/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The huge plantations in the South had to have cheap human labor, the North did not have such huge plantations. Slavery was cost effective in the South but not in the North.

To: melinda abplanalp who wrote (29003)	6/15/1999 12:38:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

The first Dutch slave ship to Jamestown carried black men who were sold as indentured servants, not slaves. Europeans had been in what became the US almost a century before this (DeSoto, etc.). Slavery was eliminated from the North as a result of political effort by people like Franklin, the Adamses, and early abolitionists. Many people tried to colonize Africa with freed slaves to rid the U.S. of what they considered unassimilable people. Lincoln almost until he issued the Preliminary Emacipation Proclamation in 1862 favored compensated emancipation and subsidized colonization. There were relatively few Abolitionists. Some of them wanted to secede before South Carolina seceded. It was a close call. The Crittenden Compromise would have adopted an amendment that would have saddled the US with slavery that could not be ended by amendment to the Constitution. The original Constitution was a compact with the devil. The Civil War was the irrepressible conflict.