Progressive Quotes
Most people do not realize that the best economic argument for retaining American slavery was made by the Father of Communism himself. What Marx did not realize was how rapidly the Northern States were industrializing and how much science and technology was bushing society ahead economically. However, 15 years later, when slaves began to be emancipated, the world had changed again, and the North thrived economically and every other way without the “contribution” of the products of Southern slavery. It may have been however that in 1848, America could not have fared so well without slavery, but 1861 was a different economic era.