21 Jun 2022 9:44 am
Mechanization would have resulted in slaves using machines, just like the Nazis had slave labor using machines.SJConspirator » 20 Jun 2022, 9:58 pm » wrote: ↑ because it was about that time that mechanized equipment took over all the functions of slaves. Digging ditches with backhoes, etc. also, the pressure from allys in WWI would have been mounting heavily. International pressure to end slavery was a big part of why the civil war happened. The British government had abolished slavery in 1833, so the US was already 30 years late
The South would not have had the ability to produce the machines, either. The Confederate States were a corrupt and backward feudal society poorly ruled by a minority of plantation owners.