on the open slave markets to the South of them, and hire wage labor or indentureds to replace the negroes.
That was the solution, in a way, that Lincoln himself envisioned, getting rid of negroes and replacing them with white immigrants. See Lincoln's Immigration Act, signed Independence Day, July 4, 1864.
(Lincoln was trying to get free of the negroes he had freed!)
That was the solution, in a way, that Lincoln himself envisioned, getting rid of negroes and replacing them with white immigrants. See Lincoln's Immigration Act, signed Independence Day, July 4, 1864.
(Lincoln was trying to get free of the negroes he had freed!)
They would have lost money, but they could not rely on Northern racists to wait to strike.
The other problem was that those negroes were collateral for Northern and New Orleans bankers' loans, and selling them outright may not even have been an option.
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