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What imports? The major export of the colonies was cotton, they weren't going to import it.
Raw materials out.
Finished goods in.
Get it?
According to the Westminster Review Volume LXXIV July-October 1860 it is estimated that the Britain exported the equivalent of 2,775,450,905 yards of finished clothing, fabrics and accessories to the United States.
Lace and patent net, items which I highly doubt were slated for the average slate, amounted to 344.156£.
I can't believe you guys are still arguing with someone who thinks that rich, slave-owning plantation owners wore the same quality material as their slaves. They ate the same food too, right?
To mention the Civil War without mentioning slavery is basically leaving out an important piece about the time period. The slavery issue was something that was being fought over before the Civil War started. Slavery wasn't a side issue. It was a condition in which a sizeable portion of the American population lived in. Slavery was one of the issues, if not the only one. I would argue that some ways of governing came out of the slavery era.
It's nonsense to claim that the Civil
War wasn't about slavery. Just read the documents of the day, including the secession declarations. Had there not been slavery there would have been no war.
Wildly revisionist history is dangerous and an insult to the hundreds of thousands of Southerners and Northerners who fought and died.
Slavery wasn't the only reason you know, stop oversimplifying it.
True. It was just the primary, overriding reason.
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The new [Confederate] constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution — African slavery as it exists amongst us — the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted.
(Jefferson's) ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. ... Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner–stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition.
-----Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of American in the Cornerstone Speech, delivered March 21, 1861.
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And in a way, they were defending themselves from the North.
In the same 'way' that Germany was defending itself from the United States, 1941-1945.
Searching the text of those documents, the very words of the secessionists, we find the words 'slave/slavery/slaveholding' occurring 81 times. Those documents revolve around slavery. They're positively obsessed with it, and the 'right of states' (ie, 'states rights') to hold slaves. That's the 'states rights' that were being preserved - the right to enslave human beings. Of course, it's utterly laughable to call the power of a state of enslave people a 'right'. But I know how the apologia goes.
You can peruse the orders of secession of the other states if you want. They can be found online. You'll find the same thing -- clear declarations that slavery must be preserved.
Searching the text of those documents, the very words of the secessionists, we find the words 'slave/slavery/slaveholding' occurring 81 times. Those documents revolve around slavery. They're positively obsessed with it, and the 'right of states' (ie, 'states rights') to hold slaves. That's the 'states rights' that were being preserved - the right to enslave human beings. Of course, it's utterly laughable to call the power of a state of enslave people a 'right'. But I know how the apologia goes.
You can peruse the orders of secession of the other states if you want. They can be found online. You'll find the same thing -- clear declarations that slavery must be preserved.
Germany invaded other countries. The Union invaded another country.
Just out of curiosity, what is wrong with slavery?
The war has been re-branded as celebrations come up to drastically play down the role of slavery, and the fact it even happened. Instead many are making it all about "states rights" while the good ol' southern boys were defending their homes from the warring North.
Screw that one of the tantamount reasons to secession was to keep human beings as property I guess.
if people rmember, the civil war was more about states rights than about slavery.
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