Do you think America would be more or less racist if the South freed the slaves on their own?

If they freed the slaves on their own, the slaves would become paid workers. Their lives would be a lot like the lives of the immigrant workers up North. The companies/plantation owners won't provide them with food, shelter, medical treatment, etc. Instead, they will be paid a small sum, more or less like factory worker wages. However, they are free to go anywhere they wish.



Do you think America would be more or less racist today? Or do you think it would be the same? Why?Do you think America would be more or less racist if the South freed the slaves on their own?
It would probably be the same. The whites and blacks just never got along; the same with other races. It's somehow in our nature.
Go back and re read your history books. There were Northern States that were slave states also. The Civil war was never about slavery as many people would lead you to believe and not every white person in the south owned slaves. in fact there were very few slave owners in relation to the population in the south. there were more poor white farmers that were sharecroppers than there were slaves.



The American Civil War was fought over States rights and not wanting a centralized Government making decisions by people who had nothing in common with the people the laws would effect. The slavery issue was a by product and had been in the works years before the Civil War started.Do you think America would be more or less racist if the South freed the slaves on their own?
The South would not do that voluntarily. That's why there was a necessary civil war. Right is right and wrong is wrong. The North wanted a "New America" the South wanted to keep "Old America". I'm glad "New America" won. It wasn't a bed of roses but it was better than what went before.
No. It was racism in the North too. There is racism everywhere.
The south would never free the slaves.

They made so much money off of them.