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Re: IF THE US HAD LOST HER CIVIL WAR

"In which case, American Slavery would have received new life, rather than its death blow -- Perhaps, victory might have made the national enemy so powerful and feared as to be practically unchallengable from outside those corrupted member-States -- though, the so-called Confederacy's absurd, hateful, selfish, aristocratic, paternalistic, chauvinistic, intolerant, human-race and gender-based notions -- of the "good" life, disunion, and tyranny -- might have undone its own self, in the end -- by the fundamental fallacies embedded in its very principles and policy -- after fatally damaging -- the rest of the former nation and -- snuffing out a far better idea."

It may not have also. Your forgetting that the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence was written and signed by slave owners the fathers and grandfathers of the founders of the Confederacy. You also are not taking into account that the act of secession destroyed slavery. Even without the war slavery had a very slim chance of surviving a decade without the cooperation of the Northern States. Secession gave the slaves a 2000 mile porous border that the South could not begin to prevent their escape. Economically the Confederate South would have to modify to survive competing with the ports of New York and Boston, it no longer to afford to just be a exporter of agricultural goods...the product of slavery. It would have to produce and manufacture machines and dry goods...products slaves were not suited for producing...for if they were, the North would have not abolished African slavery and imported the Irish to do the work.

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