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re: 154 years ago today.
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:04 pm to AU86
Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:04 pm to AU86
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“Why not let the South go in peace”? replied; “I can’t let them go. Who would pay for the government”? “And, what then will become of my tariff”? Abraham Lincoln to Virginia Compromise Delegation March 1861
The utter hypocrisy of the Union cause never ceases to amaze me. They held their virtuous hearts superior to that of the "slaveowner" - forgetting that the Yankee textile mills would be silent without Southern cotton. Yankee homes would be bare without southern timber to make furniture. Yankee bellies would be empty without Southern food crops - all done with significant slave labor, mind you.
Not defending the institution (which was as evil a thing as ever imposed on people by other people, particularly since the Renaissance), but calling out hypocrisy.
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Posted on 7/5/17 at 3:06 pm to Ace Midnight
“Had the cotton gin of Massachusetts inventor Eli Whitney not come on the scene in the late 1700’s, African slavery in this country was most likely doomed. The antislavery and emancipation feeling in the South was ascendant, but thwarted by profitable slave-trading and hungry cotton mills in New England which gave rise to more plantations in the South, and the perpetuation of slavery. And after years of treating the American South as an agricultural colony, New England set out in 1861 to strip it of political power.”
Bernhard Thuersam- Director Cape Fear Historical Institute NC.
Bernhard Thuersam- Director Cape Fear Historical Institute NC.
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