Slavery was going to die its own death. Free labor in the
Posted on: December 28, 2023 at 11:12:21 CT
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north, and accompanying mechanization, dwarfed the output of slave labor in the south.
The wheat and corn harvest of 1863 and 1864 in the north was record setting, while upwards of 1M men were in the Union army.
Slave labor was doomed to economic failure. In fact, it already was by 1860. They just didn't realize it in the slave states.