May all the slaveholders weren’t willing to sell.
Ron Paul is a nutjob kook, as are his supporters.
Of course they weren't willing to sell. Slaves were the labor force for the south. AND even if slaveowners had sold their slaves to the north, what would stop them from buying more? Ron Paul is an idiot who couldn't think his way out of a paper bag.
They could have passed a law .....
My understanding was that a procedure to buy and free slaves was being put in place, but Congress balked at the price.
May[be] all the slaveholders weren’t willing to sell.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.
It's easy to assume that that wasn't tried. The South would none of it.The South had a tiger by the tail, and knew it. Northeners knew it too, which is why Abolitionism wasn't popular in the North before the Civil War.
May[be] all the slaveholders weren’t willing to sell.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.
It's easy to assume that that wasn't tried. The South would none of it.The South had a tiger by the tail, and knew it. Northeners knew it too, which is why Abolitionism wasn't popular in the North before the Civil War.
“Maybe all the slaveholders weren’t willing to sell.”
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Not only were they not for sale, but there was a conflict as to whether the western states would allow slavery or not-containment was apparently not an option.
Paul is crazy, and I have as little respect for his supporters as I do for libtards. They are just too out there. (He does have some good ideas relating to the economy and the fed, but NO WAY is he stable or competent enough to be POTUS.)
The north unlike Britian never really considered compensation.
And at the time, the U.S. government (dominated by southern politicians, it should be noted) was relatively small and could not afford to buy all 4 million slaves recorded in the 1860 census.
At an average cost of about $1,500 (in current dollars) each, the federal government would have had to pay out about $6 billion (which it did not have) to the planters and other slaveholders. Imagine the politics involved in making such a suggestion at the time
Paul's a kook and historical ignoramous!
'nuff said.
I like Paul. Not too big a fan of Lincoln. Not convinced slavery was the primary cause for the Civil War or Lincoln would have freed the slaves much sooner. Don’t want to argue the cause of the Civil War.
But.....if the North had purchased the slaves the South could have made a killing by buying more, marking them up and selling a new batch. I think Paul didn’t think this one through.