There’s fundamental lack of understanding on slavery and racial issues here.
Northern whites didn’t oppose slavery solely because slavery is bad, they saw slavery as an attack on their own ability to earn money and feed their families as slaves would displace them. It’s the same reason why they opposed freed blacks moving North and taking up jobs. It’s why you had race riots in the North. If you free then what do you do with them? Almost no one wants them for a neighbor up north. Forcing them to move in loses you elections. And thus power to enforce it. Sending them to Africa would be costly although more palatable to people.
Buying slaves gradually also is never going to work. They are slaves. You could if you wanted to rape them day and night. Or force another slave to do the same. Either way you will never buy out the slaves as more can be produced. The reason slaves in the south weren’t made into breeding machines was fear of Haiti situation, fear of becoming a minority and keeping the prices of slaves up.
The only way it could work is a negotiated nationalization of slavery with long term repayment to slave owners, interim period of post slavery training where the slaves are trained useful skills and then sending them to Africa. Which could still be economically ruinous.
Northern whites didn’t oppose slavery solely because slavery is bad, they saw slavery as an attack on their own ability to earn money and feed their families as slaves would displace them. It’s the same reason why they opposed freed blacks moving North and taking up jobs. It’s why you had race riots in the North. If you free then what do you do with them? Almost no one wants them for a neighbor up north. Forcing them to move in loses you elections. And thus power to enforce it. Sending them to Africa would be costly although more palatable to people.
Buying slaves gradually also is never going to work. They are slaves. You could if you wanted to rape them day and night. Or force another slave to do the same. Either way you will never buy out the slaves as more can be produced. The reason slaves in the south weren’t made into breeding machines was fear of Haiti situation, fear of becoming a minority and keeping the prices of slaves up.
The only way it could work is a negotiated nationalization of slavery with long term repayment to slave owners, interim period of post slavery training where the slaves are trained useful skills and then sending them to Africa. Which could still be economically ruinous.