Sure I’ll sell you my slaves then go buy me some new younger stronger ones.
Is he really this stupid?
You couldn’t just enslave anybody of color, and importation had been banned for decades. They would have had to bring in illegals or something to get labor. Honestly, even the south was not brave enough to give capitalism a chance - the idea that you could pay the former slaves to do their former work, and still make plenty of money - more money because your employees were motivated, not well understood.
Paul is so wonderful. Would you rather kill 500,000 Americans or buy the slaves and let them go? The war wasn’t over slavery anyway. It was over the 10th amendment states rights.