@lmrushing7375

2 years ago

When I was in high school, I was taught that the civil war was not so much about slavery as it was about power and money. The North was where the power and money was and the South was under their increasingly oppressive control. The south fought back for some equitable sharing in the huge profits the North gained from the labor and work of the Southern farmers. Slavery was an excuse to go to war. The South had already started the process of becoming slave free, but change takes time in order to not destroy an economy. A consciousness was developing in many Southerners. The North wanted to keep a choke hold on the Southso when the South decided to set up their own power structure with European markets, the North said no, that left the South little choice but to secede from the states and that would break the power and banks of the North so war was inevitable. From the small bit of non modern history I have read, it makes sense. Slaves were being released after so many years of service. Some were given their own land to farm. Was slavery ever to be condoned? No, but it was Africans capturing Africans and Africans selling Africans into Portuguese Slavers first. It was Africans who had filthy disgusting slave ships to transport those poor people who had just lost home and family and now faced months of hellish ocean transport. Yes, southern farmers did buy the slaves. Bad on them! But if we look at the flip side of the coin, if there had not been a slave market, those captured slaves would most likely just been killed off by their captors. No win their. And although many slaves were abused, it doesn’t make sense that most were. They were a valuable commodity that needed to be cared for. If they had done like the Natives (the first people Europeans tried enslaving) they would have just refused to cooperate and would choose death over control. But they chose life and enslavement. If you have a horse that can’t be broke, you shoot it or release it. It’s no good if it doesn’t work. I stand with the brave Natives, I will die free. And if anyone thinks for a moment that we as a people aren’t being rounded up and enslaved little by little, then you are not paying attention or you prefer slavery. I’m open for documented correction.

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