I mean, the answer is that the soldiers were already paid, and that wealth was inherited. Slaves were not paid, and that wealth was not inherited. And you shouldn’t have to pay a price to be freed from slavery. I know most people here understand that, I just had to say it out loud.

Not sure why everyone wants to live in the past. I’m not interested in reliving yesterday, let alone reliving the ignorance of some ancestor 200 years ago.