It's important to remember just how dumb the US slaveowners were, collectively. Oh sure, slave labor is tempting and all, but they allowed
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slave numbers to increase as a percentage of the population, such that whites were a minority in South Carolina. Did they think they could
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keep that up forever? Did they not hear about Haiti? What the fuck were they thinking?
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Also note the collective action problem here. An individual landowner would have a hard time competing against slave labor, so market forces
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pushed them into having slaves. This could only be solved through collective action (government).
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