Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : FREE AMERICA -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: goldworldnet who wrote (1270)	4/1/2006 2:40:51 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14758

I'll buy the industrial revolution part - it was coming on for sure. But in the north, not in the south at the time. Ironically, the industrial revolution in England and the North increased the demand for the South's slave grown commodity - cotton. I just don't think slavery was going to end peacefully on its own. To believe that I'd have to see large numbers of slave owners throwing in the towel and giving their slaves their freedom. But that wasn't happening. Now the growth of population in the north meant that someday the day would have come that the north could impose its will on the south by overwhelming majority. But I think that would have been a long time coming. The Dred Scott decision provided a powerful judicial protection for slavery.