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Will the South every actually rise again?

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Will the South every actually rise again?

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Slavery was on it’s last leg long before the South’s struggle for independence. It had already disappeared on the European front (for the most part). However, even after the war, the slave trading ships of the North still dealt in the supply of slaves to the Carribean areas. Even in European waters where slave trading had been outlawed, non-American slave trading vessels would often hoist the American flag if threatened, because authorities would ignore the American slave trading ships. The northern states had dropped slavery only when enough cheap labor became available from immigrants. They didn’t, however, drop racism. Northern states passed laws forbidding Negroes from entering their states, working, owning property, etc. Most people loyal to the northern cause, were thus not because they wanted to stamp out slavery, but because losing the revenues from the southern states would cripple their economy. Many of those in the north who did not agree with forcing the southern states to

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