And cotton is picked by machinery now.

We even have special hybrid short stalks so they fit nicely under the machine.

Yes, everything is under control now.

And the prevailing attitude makes me wonder how productive it was to have slaves in the first place. I have read it was economically unfeasible and on the way out long before the civil war is it was cheaper to just pay a low wage instead of total support.

But couldn't waste a good chance for a war and confiscation of all that property. Meanwhile the North employees children instead in their factories.

And agree that every ethnic group on earth has been under some form of slavery at some time in history.