The Current State Of The U.S. Military
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[men with a time machine meme] Pay your own people to pick cotton.
Seriously, we would have avoided so much shit
You act like the White Supremacist slavers didn't know that. They're the ones who promoted the idea that certain work was 'below' certain people. If they had hired white farmers, it would have cost them less money than to import """"free"""" labor from Africa. Instead, they saw themselves as a "civilizing" force, demanded the government pay it, depressed working white wages, stagnated and monopolized the southern economy, and then looked on the rest of the white population as inferior to them.
You're right. If we had taught the plantation class not to be a bunch of racist, elitist, authoritarian, fuck-weasels, then this wouldn't have happened... but you can't fix that kind of stupid easily.
We're talking about a group of people who saw the development of the Cotton Gin and the beginning of mechanized farming, and decided to try and have slaves run the machines.
I doubt the white slavers knew that 150 years after slavery was abolished the descendants of and those who identified with (but themselves weren't necessarily) the descendants of slaves would be an existentially destabilizing force in the country.
Don't be silly. They knew that it would be a destabilizing force at the time. It's one of the primary reason they opposed the freeing of slaves. They couldn't hold onto power if slaves were freed.