Toward the end of the video in discussing the massive cost of the war, John states, "if in 1860 the federal government had purchased every slave and had granted a 40 acre farm to each family, the total cost would have been $3.1 billion." This number is half the total cost of the war for the Union alone. Considering
this idea of setting free every slave rather than fighting a war, how might you image the United States
today?