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Let's say an easily portable source of power for agriculture is developed in 1810. John Deere can hook up his inventions to a tractor and so much more development of agricultural mechanisation takes place much faster. By 1820 almost all forms and aspects of agriculture are thoroughly machine oriented. Gangs of slaves stand idly in the fields, watching the plows and cotton planters in one field and the cotton pickers in another as their overseers wonder what to do with them.
Or Do they? Would mechanized agriculture have ended slavery and prevented the CW, or was there more to it than that.?
Let's say an easily portable source of power for agriculture is developed in 1810. John Deere can hook up his inventions to a tractor and so much more development of agricultural mechanisation takes place much faster. By 1820 almost all forms and aspects of agriculture are thoroughly machine oriented. Gangs of slaves stand idly in the fields, watching the plows and cotton planters in one field and the cotton pickers in another as their overseers wonder what to do with them.
Or Do they? Would mechanized agriculture have ended slavery and prevented the CW, or was there more to it than that.?