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Hypothetical Question: Would America be a superpower if the South won the Civil War?
21 Jun 2022 7:24 am
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
I read something a while back that said black Africans that sold other blacks to the west actually kept more slaves for themselves.
One of the biggest slave owners in America was a black man...he even enslaved his own family.