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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
If the south wins the war they have to start working with the rest of the world (namely western Europe) pretty quick. How long does eventually mean? Probably the second having slaves starts costing them more money on the international trade scene then it saves them in the field. The same people from the north who opposed the south's slavery existed and held the dominate position in the south's logical trading partners.
I've read a few guesses by people smarter then me. Usually it's around 20 years. Before the turn of the century for sure.
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I don't buy it...firstly maybe slavery would have ended because of economics but under the southern paradigm would they have been emancipated? That would be a much bigger challenge for Confederate leaders to sell to their constituents.
So you may have slavery becoming obsolete but not ostracized.
If you think full civil rights in the US took too long after the North won...imagine how long the current progress in civil rights would have taken if they had lost.
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