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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Many people who lived outside the slave states were in favor of simply killing every black person in America to solve the problem of white southerners having the economic advantage of free labor.
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Wait a minute, I thought they wanted to send the blacks to Liberia? Or was that just Abraham Lincoln?
I'm not sure if the South's "free labor" was an economic advantage. Makes much more economic sense in the long run to adopt machinery/automation to replace slave labor.