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SkeletorsTeeth 242 points ago +242 / -0

Southern democrats couldnt bear paying for labor...

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IncredibleMrE1 219 points ago +219 / -0

Big Business has always thrived on cheap foreign labor.

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Joesf23 38 points ago +38 / -0

Once it was a cheaper to use irish immigrants and others fresh off the boat, the north didnt need blacks as slaves.

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kyblugrass 10 points ago +10 / -0

The economics of slavery is something that doesn't get talked about enough, or at all really, even in academic circles. Slavery is almost always framed in a morality argument.