No, it's really not. The problem was always the people acting against our interests. Whether there were slaves here or not, they'd have found a way to bring us down because that was always the goal. They just used what resources they had at their disposal and would have found another way regardless of the slaves or not. It doesn't take much to put everyone back in shackles if we want.
I was being a little tongue in cheek. But it certainly would be harder for, say, blacks, to exert any influence at all—even the "pity me and look the other way while I do bad shit" sort that they currently do—if the policy had been to simply leave them all in Africa and not pay any attention to them beyond what's needed to do local mining operations and stuff.
No, it's really not. The problem was always the people acting against our interests. Whether there were slaves here or not, they'd have found a way to bring us down because that was always the goal. They just used what resources they had at their disposal and would have found another way regardless of the slaves or not. It doesn't take much to put everyone back in shackles if we want.
I was being a little tongue in cheek. But it certainly would be harder for, say, blacks, to exert any influence at all—even the "pity me and look the other way while I do bad shit" sort that they currently do—if the policy had been to simply leave them all in Africa and not pay any attention to them beyond what's needed to do local mining operations and stuff.