This was the money of the Confederacy
Slaves working the field --
This is the currency and the cause the idiot neoconfederates like bripat support and defend.
I don't defend slavery, asshole.
You always have before, because you defend the South.
I don't defend the South over slavery, moron. I only defend them over the claim that they started the war or that they were "traitors." Slavery could have been ended without slaughtering 850,000, as it was done in every other country in the world. Unfortunately Lincoln wanted war so he could mulct the South of its wealth.
How would it have ended? It continued for seventy years after the constitution was written.
There were four million slaves in the South, out of a total population of 9 million.
Some states had majority slave populations. How?
There was murder and mayhem and horrific battles in Kansas and Missouri going on for years before by the slavery and anti-slavery factions, and the new territories soon to be admitted were eyed with a twinkle, as the South hoped to make them slave Territories. They were even seeking to expand Slavery to Mexico, Cuba, Latin America...
It was all about expanding it -- now tell me just *how* would slavery have ended?
How?