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If the Southern states had not seceded would the treatment of slaves improved over the next 50 to 75 years?
We hear of that slaves were whipped, beaten, burned, branded, tortured, and sexually abused but was the treatment of slaves improving in the years leading up to the Civil War? One could assume if the treatment of slaves was improving prior to the Civil War, then over the next 50 to 75 years the treatment of slaves would continue to improve. However if the reserve was true then over the next 50 to 75 years slaves would have been subject to increased brutality.
If so would have the increasingly brutal treatment of slaves have had an impact on the abolitionist movement?
We hear of that slaves were whipped, beaten, burned, branded, tortured, and sexually abused but was the treatment of slaves improving in the years leading up to the Civil War? One could assume if the treatment of slaves was improving prior to the Civil War, then over the next 50 to 75 years the treatment of slaves would continue to improve. However if the reserve was true then over the next 50 to 75 years slaves would have been subject to increased brutality.
If so would have the increasingly brutal treatment of slaves have had an impact on the abolitionist movement?