They didn't work hard, thus a quite failed enterprise. So they finally abolished enslavery to (try) to get them back to africa?
What was cheaper - to feed & house the slaves or pay them a shit wage and let them find their own food and housing?
Blacks didn't get worthless until LBJ put them on the dole. I did enough construction worth along side them as a kid to know they work hard when they have too.
Crgarcia... if you were born into slavery would you have a been a good obedient slave and worked diligently for your master? Would you have done a really good job picking that cotton while your master was back at the slave quarters fucking the shit out of your woman and daughter? Does a lazy slave point to a lazy master? A master too lazy to apply his whip in the appropriate manner. A master to busy fathering mulatto children, rather than making sure that his slaves got their work done quickly?
The historical record on this is huge, but in a nutshell I think it was abolished simply because the South got its ass kicked.
I wouldn't call these stats an ass kicking by any means. Especially since the confederacy had to fight a military double its size. <IMG SRC=http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=2571907>
The transatlantic slave trade was abolished for several reasons: (1) bankers found it more profitable to lend to industrial entrepreneurs (the new economy) than to the transatlantic slave trade (the old economy); (2) increase in (successful) slave revolts; (3) agricultural overproduction led to lower prices; (4) higher prices for slaves--rising labor costs: (5) it made more sense to sell industrial goods to Africa than to perpetuate the slave trade--why destroy a potential market by sending the best and brightest across the Atlantic?: and (6) rising abolitionist movements convinced some Christians, after centuries of Christians supporting slavery, that slavery was morally indefensible and therefore had to be abolished.