BA> The 1830 census showed about three thousand free black slave OWNERS in
 BA> the south.  Aside from that, slavery was dying out, albeit slowly; the 
 BA> invention of farm machinery after the War of Northern Aggression insured 
 BA> that slavery would die out, one doesn't have to feed or care for
 BA> machinery when it's not being used

Uh huh. That's why thought fought a war to keep it alive (and please,
spare the "states rights" revisionism: it's been shown clearly and
conclusively that the primary cause of the US Civil War was the South's
attempts to preserve slavery as an institution).

But let's assume for a moment that slavery was, in fact, dying out.
What was to become of the enslaved peoples and their descendants?

The confederacy was rooted in white supremacy and the desire to continue
owning human beings as property.

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