Quote Originally Posted by Alexander the Pretty Good View Post
Yes, being concerned about the welfare of those held in bondage is trolling. How is giving freed slaves "backpay" a bad idea, nevermind trolling?
What business do you know of that keeps, say, 10-20 years of back pay for the workforce just lying around?

This solution would lead to these cases:
Worst case, outright murder of slaves before they get freed, just to keep from going bankrupt.
Financial ruin for just about any business that owned slaves, if they pay. Economic collapse in general.
70 year head start to the KKK, throughout the entire country, with resentment towards African Americans lasting for a very long time.

Less than 5 years after it's implementation, the Brits would come back and clean up the mess, and the country would be a failed experiment, footnote to history. It's completely unworkable.