“For 1/100 the cost of the war, plus 600 thousand lives, enough money would have been available to buy up all the slaves and free them.”
And just why would the slave owners have sold them? They needed them to work on the plantations.
Ah, the slaves, in this highly hypothetical situation, were going to need an income, it's called share cropping.
Cause they could’ve gotten a cheap illegal immigrant to do the work for peanuts? You know, those jobs Americans won’t do?
:-P