Apply some common sense
If you bought a tractor, would you run it without oil?
Would you try to plow solid rock?
No, you would take care of the machine because it was expensive and you need it to make a living.as the info below explains, slave were costly investments. Why would you beat a slave,reducing the persons ablity to do the desired task?? does not compute.
"In 1860, a Virginia trader valued 20-year-old slaves as “extra men” and “extra women,” worth $1,500-$1,600 and $1,325-$1,400, respectively. A second tier of high-value souls were known as “No. 1 men,” worth $1,400-$1,500, and “No. 1 women,” worth $1,275-$1,325.
Sad as it may be that men bought men as we do machines, that was the reality at that time. Average cost of a slave was 1500 bucks! in 1860, that was alot of money when the average southern males wages was .16 cents a hour.
Oh, and slavery was NOT just in the south,
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you could find it in new york as well as other states
So when you say the confederates were just fighting to keep slaves, why would the north oppose that when they were getting even richer from them??
That is what blows holes in some of the narratives you follow. common sense. the civil war started because of taxation of cotton sent to europe instead of up north. slavery was added in later. Do your research.
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