Just remember, EVERY western country ended slavery by the end of the 19th century. Industrialization permanently ended it one way or another. The civil war was completely pointless and should have never happened. It was a war for profit to industrialize the South. Wasn't much different from the Russian revolution and the industrialization of Russia going from an agricultural state to an industrial one. This change was an opportunity for the nobility to consolidate power and further control the masses.
You do realize that the slaveowning ruling class within the plantation system, was designed to replicate the English aristocratic system that the US was founded with hopes to break free of said system? Unfortunately yes, industrialized society became a new form of slavery. But that wasn't based on flawed eugenics backed bunk science of racial supremacy like the American chattel system. Eliminating the latter left one less system of slavery to destroy.
Just remember, EVERY western country ended slavery by the end of the 19th century. Industrialization permanently ended it one way or another. The civil war was completely pointless and should have never happened. It was a war for profit to industrialize the South. Wasn't much different from the Russian revolution and the industrialization of Russia going from an agricultural state to an industrial one. This change was an opportunity for the nobility to consolidate power and further control the masses.
You do realize that the slaveowning ruling class within the plantation system, was designed to replicate the English aristocratic system that the US was founded with hopes to break free of said system? Unfortunately yes, industrialized society became a new form of slavery. But that wasn't based on flawed eugenics backed bunk science of racial supremacy like the American chattel system. Eliminating the latter left one less system of slavery to destroy.