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Skans » 8 minutes ago » wrote: ↑

8 minutes ago

Those "slaves" were not oppressed.  They lived much, much better on most plantations than they did in Africa. Slavery was necessary as a transition from jungle-life to life among civilized people. Unfortunately, the civilized people of that day didn't realize that it would be nearly impossible for Blacks to ever make that transition without the infusion of white DNA.

Also, Black slavery, as it was during America's founding would never have been a problem if the Southern States didn't engage in slavery on an industrial scale. They wanted to get rich on cotton exports, and did, leading to industrial-level slavery.  In just a handfull of decades, slaves would have been rendered useless due to mechanization anyway.