On Slavery In North America Being an Exceedingly More Complex and Intractable Problem than the Average 21st Century Virtue-Signaling Collegiate Simpleton Could Possibly Understand, with the Independence of Haiti In 1804 Being a Prototypical Example of What a Rapid Emancipation Would Have Looked Like (Of Course if You've Read Jim Downs's Great Book, "Sick from Freedom", You'll Likely Come Away with the Opinion that it Isn't Necessary to Travel that Far)

  One of the factors frequently overlooked is the paternalism that emanated from the white population. As unsavory as it sounds today it was believed by many back then that blacks simply would not be capable of surviving on their own and so they had to be provided for. Granted, this may have been a rationalization on the part of certain whites but being what happened in South Carolina (older freed blacks often having to be wards of the state - this from Larry Koger's book,"Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters In South Carolina, 1790 to 1860)) it wasn't always wrong............................................................................................................P.S. And, no, I'm arguing against emancipation. I'm simply saying that it has to be done intelligently or you're going to end up with hundreds of thousands of corpses and civilizational destruction as what happened after the Civil War.