Resolved: A truely capitalistic system would be detrimental to slavery, even if it were permitted t

I confirm what my opponent has sated in regards to the violation, so let us move on and finish this debate up.Contention 1: King Cotton and Slavery My opponent gives a huge "what if" moment, but what we have to realize is that we have to look at it chronilogically. If these issues would have caused a collapse in this industry then it would cease to exist and even my opponent has agreed with that point of mine. When we look at this issue specifically we have to look at the greatest issue on the market that he has dropped and that is of soil depletion. As I showed in my Contentions Round 2 and has been dropped by my important was that cotton growth the largest industry for Southern Slavery in the United States. The soil depletion had it on its way to another Dust Bowl across the south and luckily the war stopped it, but there was no war, so we can see that this would've force a lot of slaveholders out of business and most likely have ended the industry. [1] So we can see that it is hard to ague slavery in the 2000s if slavery cannot even make it out of the 1800s. My opponent then tries to counter this argument by stating that we can diversifiy crops and markets, but once again this wouldn't have happend. This is the same for the tobbacco crop in colonial America. In Virginia is desimate the costal areas forcing people to go inwards and it continued to happen. The same was beginning to be seen with the coton plantations as it was a key reason why Southerners pushed for more slave states as soil depletion continued to occur and they wouldn't give up their monoculitivation. [2]Contention 2: Mercantilism and Capitalism.My opponent is under the allusion that mercanilism is the same as True Capitalism. Although it is Capitalistic it is NOT true Capitialism due to the protectionism within the system. My opponent then tries to tackle the tariff argument, but goes about it the wrong way. The American Cotton system was entirely dependent upon tariffs as their own goods cannot nor could not compete against foreign nations and tariffs had to be placed on imports so the American Cotton and goods could effectively compete against foreign imports in order for their product to compete. If the tariff is removed then American cotton industries would be overwelmed and they would go under as many would purchase the cheaper cotton for their products. [3]My opponent has competely dropped my argument in regards to this issue here. When we actually look at history we can se that since slaves were so valuable that the slaveholders wouldn't have them do the most dangerous jobs. For that they would give to the Irish or the Italians or whatever minority group they could get ahold of. [4] Not only that we can see that the general nature of each man is to live as easy as possible. [5] The working man has an incentive to continue his/her work as they actually get to go home to enjoy their time off and the get paid so that they may enjoy some leisure in life. The greatest reason as to why slaves aren't incentivized is that of leisure time. They don't get to enjoy life as a free man does. If this wasn't the case then why do you think that slaves continued to run for freedom. If they had it so good like the others, then why would they run? My opponent goes after the quality and quanitity argument. One of the key things here that you would have to look at is what is known as a Bumpy Platue. Escentially what this is and what it does is a simple price varriation over time. This graudally get's higher and higher prices to the point that we end up seeing prices like the $401 per gallon in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. The soil depletion would skyrocket this. Though overproduction would create an overflow of cotton it can be seen that as the Great Southern Dust Bowl rolled on that cotton prices would skyrocket in the US as little to no production occurs. This would cause a collapse in the American economy and as well as the Global Economy (pending how independent Britian is with their cotton from India, but as I showed in previous rounds they should be well off).It is for these reasons that slavery cannot have existed without mercanitlism and even then the system would have imploded sooner or latter. For that I thank you for your time and urge you to vote Pro.Sources1. Craven, Avery O. Soil Exhaustion as a Factor in the Agricultural History of Virginia and Maryland, 1606–1860. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.2. Robert William Fogel, Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), Chapter 33. The Wealth Of Nations, Book IV, Chapter III, Part II, p.495, para. c114. D'Souza, Dinesh. America: Imagine a World without Her. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.5. The Wealth Of Nations, Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article II, p. 760, para. f7.