This is more or less the standard understanding of how the Founding generation in Virginia framed slavery, esp by contrast to its characterization by Calhoun & his followers as a positive good. https://twitter.com/AndyGrewal/status/1287567993795420161 …
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This analysis ignored the effect the Cotton Gin had on making slave-based plantation agriculture profitable again. Tobacco was not bringing in the money the planters needed.
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They did fail to foresee that coming.
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As well as a Constitution that allowed for the end of the importation of slaves which Congress did pass.
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Abolition didn't come easily, even in the North.
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Well, relatively.
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See also: 3/5 compromise. It was necessary to make these unhappy compromises, or they feared the Constitution would not have been ratified by all 13 former colonies.
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Yes. The same discussion went on in 1860. Lincoln's Cooper Union speech said they believed it was a necessary evil. Not because the country needed it, but because it was already there, and the southern elites weren't willing/claimed to be unable to get rid of it.pic.twitter.com/58M1vwW7sh
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I hate to say it but no one learns, or reads Lincoln anymore.
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