Bobert--

So how long should blacks have had to wait before slavery ended? As it did with the end of the war ---yes, I know share-cropping, KKK etc. was not wonderful--but would continued slavery have been better?)

Do you honestly think that if slavery had died a "natural death" there would have been no lynchings of blacks and no Jim Crow laws. And how long before this "natural death?

As I said, slavery was the curse of the birth of the US. After the 3/5 rule was accepted--and without it, many southern states would not have signed the Constitution--the eventual clash was unavoidable. The southern cotton economy made it worse--by making both many in the south (and indirectly many in the north) very prosperous--at the cost of an entirely slave-based economy