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You are right the "economy" is too much of an abstraction to throw around as a single word. Still people do need jobs. But more than that they need equal rights
by galaxyLogic 4y ago
You are right the "economy" is too much of an abstraction to throw around as a single word. Still people do need jobs. But more than that they need equal rights and democracy, and literacy and a safety-net. The slave-economy of South was doing great as well. Everybody had a job. But what kind of job.
- WalterBright 4y ago> The slave-economy of South was doing great Not really. Their economy was in crisis which is one of the main reasons they tried to secede. Slave labor could not compete with free labor.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoI thought the reason they wanted to secede was to allow them keep their slaves. No? Why would they want to keep their slaves so much so that they would go to war over that? I assume it was because slavery was good for THEIR (meaning the slave-owning class) economy. If as you say "Slave labor could not compete with free labor" then why didn't they (the slave-owning class) switch to free labor ASAP?