Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Potato]

The abolishment of slavery rests entirely on the fact that Abraham Lincoln was elected president. Every other anti-slavery action you describe didn't actually accomplish the goal of abolishing slavery, but Abraham Lincoln did.

This is ahistorical and frankly insulting to Africans who nonetheless resisted by didn't have the right to vote. Slavery everywhere ultimately was going to eventually die out because the economic prospects of continuing it were becoming untenable due to changing material circumstances in production, and these material circumstances changed in part as a direct result of the resistance and development of Africans on the continent and abroad. If Lincoln had lost, eventually slavery would've ended in the US regardless (mainly because the Union already outgunned and outproduced the Confederacy anyway.) So maybe not pin African's resistance and freedom on the election of a single white man, ye?

Aaaaaahhhhhhh, okay, so what you're saying is the abolition of slavery was inevitable thanks entirely to the invisible hands of market forces?

This is a fascinating take from a self-declared anti-capitalist, please, do tell me more

For once Nepenthe is somewhat correct.

Keeping a slave is uneconomical compared to employing minimum wage workers and suppressing wages. 

You need to feed, clothe, home and care for slaves to keep them in peak working condition.

Minimum wage workers can be worked to death and then easily replaced by eager migrants coming across leaky borders.