The Importance of Economic Factors in the Decline of Slavery

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The decline of slavery in the 19th century and then the Civil War, was that the result ultimately of economic factors or it simply was political force. If you look at the statistics for the first Industrial Revolution, there's no evidence that workers' living standards dramatically improved till about the 40s or 50s. Most of the big growth boost comes in the second half of the 19thcentury in what people call the second Industrial Revolution.

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