Comment Re:Ukraine's borders were changed by use of force (Score 1) 304
You don't just ban it, you migrate away from it while providing solutions to the massive hole left in the labour sector.
No, you ban it. The people that then lose their ill-gotten plantations can go pick cotton. They can consider themselves lucky that they aren't punished more directly.
The north had just spent a whole lot of money on other conflicts, and needed the resources.
The north even had slavery at an earlier point in history. Plenty of blame for slavery all around.
But the Civil War still boils down to slavery.