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To: Brumar89 who wrote (449248)	1/21/2009 10:04:19 AM
From: HPilot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576826

The other crops - indigo, rice etc weren't as big and important as cotton, They were before the cotton gin. I do think industrialization and mechanization would have made slavery uneconomical eventually but that wouldn't have been for more than half a century later. Terrible to think of it continuing for that long a time. I doubt it would have been that long, but even so civil rights now would be decades behind, and possibly in other parts of the world as well. South Africa comes to mind. However, was it worth the large number of lives lost in the Civil War, both black and white? Possibly.