Current Events > Would slavery still exist in the South if the Confederacy had won?

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In this day and age, I don't think so. I think it would have been abolished by now regardless
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I think so, dey literally fought a war over it lol
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Probably would have just killed them all later during the industrial revolution when mechanized farming took off. Before a genuine abolitionist movement could have took off.
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May have staved off mechanization for a time, but I don't see a reality where mechanization wouldn't have eventually made it obsolete. At that point, you'd have alternate-reality version of Jim Crow to replace the social controls provided by slavery, so history could have followed a similar path.
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Doubt it. It would have hung on for a bit more. But eventually it would be abolished. It was already being abolished anyway - it was just a case of some states not doing it yet.

er, not wanting to do it yet. I mean the states would have kept slavery until the modern day if possible but even if they won, the other states would have strong armed them eventually through votes.

No lol
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Possibly. Maybe not field slaves, but house slaves I could definitely still see as a thing. Unpaid labor for cooking, cleaning, yard work, daycare, and all that other stuff you usually pay people to do when you can afford it.
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Alkaloid posted...

Possibly. Maybe not field slaves, but house slaves I could definitely still see as a thing. Unpaid labor for cooking, cleaning, yard work, daycare, and all that other stuff you usually pay people to do when you can afford it.

I spaced out on this possibility entirely. Derp.
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ThePieReborn posted...

Alkaloid posted...

Possibly. Maybe not field slaves, but house slaves I could definitely still see as a thing. Unpaid labor for cooking, cleaning, yard work, daycare, and all that other stuff you usually pay people to do when you can afford it.

I spaced out on this possibility entirely. Derp.

Why?
It would make sense completely. It's still almost done today (though willingly) but not exclusive to blacks. All races can be live in maids and some are raised from childbirth to do just that

ThePieReborn posted...

Alkaloid posted...

Possibly. Maybe not field slaves, but house slaves I could definitely still see as a thing. Unpaid labor for cooking, cleaning, yard work, daycare, and all that other stuff you usually pay people to do when you can afford it.

I spaced out on this possibility entirely. Derp.

Oh yea that's a good one

But still, would any country in today's world do business with a country that had slaves? It would be like a North Korea
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Baneposting1 posted...

ThePieReborn posted...

Alkaloid posted...

Possibly. Maybe not field slaves, but house slaves I could definitely still see as a thing. Unpaid labor for cooking, cleaning, yard work, daycare, and all that other stuff you usually pay people to do when you can afford it.

I spaced out on this possibility entirely. Derp.

Why?
It would make sense completely. It's still almost done today (though willingly) but not exclusive to blacks. All races can be live in maids and some are raised from childbirth to do just that

No, I meant I forgot about house slaves entirely and completely omitted them from my thought process in my first post. Self-chiding and all that.
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Absolutely. In fact, the south will rise again.
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No, it would have effectively ended by 1900 purely due to economics.

Even if slavery were legal today, it'd still be much cheaper to just hire an illegal immigrant rather than to purchase a worker and provide them with food, housing, and medical care.
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No. International pressure would have made them give if up. They would keep it if they could
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Leight_Weight posted...

Absolutely. In fact, the south will rise again.

what movie was that from?

Slavery still exists in many parts of the world but nowhere it is legalized till today, I think. Not even in the poorest countries.

No because the CSA could not survive as a nation

No, it would have been a much slower change though.
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