Would slavery have ended without the Civil War?

[sheena12]

Originally Posted by TheWiseWino

Despite outlawing the slave trade, slaves were still imported into the U.S. up until the eve of the Civil War. Either way, there was no need to import slaves because slave breeding was profitable to states like Virginia and Kentucky. In 1810, two years after the ban on importing slaves there were 1.2 million Africans held in bondage by 1860 there were 4 million.



We are long past suppositional comments, the facts have been clearly laid out above that slavery was becoming anything but unprofitable.



Well I suppose, after all we don't for the most part riding in horse drawn carriages anymore. So when do you think this voluntary transition would take place absent the civil war? 1860, 70's, 80's maybe as late as the 1930's?



Is making up history as they go. Lincoln actually proposed buy slaves out of bondage only to be rebuked by the legislature of slave states.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...ype=blogs&_r=1

They can't stop attempting to revise history.

[TheWiseWino]

Originally Posted by sheena12

They can't stop attempting to revise history.

There is historical revision, this a whole re-write.