Slavery, Emancipation, and Tractors: Unanticipated Benefits of Doing The Right Things

As the story and true history goes, Confederate States of the United States felt they could not do without slaves, felt giving up of the right to own people as slaves would have too much of adverse effects on capacity for running farms or plantations.

The Federal Government of the United States vehemently disagreed with the Confederate States. The disagreement resulted in the American Civil War, a war which lasted between 1861 and 1865, a war decisively won by those who opposed slavery. While some people wonder at genuineness of the opposition to slavery, particularly in wake of events that transpired afterwards, an important principle of life is to not refuse to appreciate right actions merely because motives are not perfect.

If right actions are not appreciated merely because motives are not perfect, we end up with a world in which nothing right gets done.

Subsequent to the Civil War (1867) sharecropping was instituted for bridging of the path to full economic emancipation for former slaves. Even if it had been perfectly implemented, the sharecropping system had to be a temporary institution, an institution that provided economic relief for former slaves until…