• plyth@feddit.org
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    14 days ago

    But then, why the segregation, also in the north and in the army?

    How could it turn out that free workers were cheaper than slaves?

    Farmers who needed labor for a few days, weeks, or months found the use of hired labor decidedly cheaper and more efficient economically

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/213510

    The war was against slavery, only to transform it into other, more efficient, means of control.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      13 days ago

      Dude we never said they weren’t racist. Like pretty much everyone has some kind of bigotry we’ve picked up over the years we have to unlearn. Just that they didn’t want slavery to expand beyond the south.