Point being since you can’t figure it out on your own, It was a way of life back then, even black men participated, yet all your yapping is only about how the whites only are at the foot of the blame, why after all these years it’s accepted to destroy property illegally?
The point is not who and of what race participated in slavery because they owned slaves. The point is the legal system that ALLOWED the institution of slavery to exist at all was created and maintained by an all-white, all-of-European-ancestry, wealthy, largely land-owning political class.
No one save for a white person of European origin–and more likely than not, one of considerable wealth besides–had any political clout at all. Slavery existed because it was legal until our republic made it ILLEGAL.
I’ve never understood how people can say that the Civil War was about state’s rights and actually believe what they’re saying. By mislabeling it that it gives it some courageous libertarian-type feeling but it came down to the south wanting to run a country with slavery.
Exactly. Every reason for the Civil War has an umbilical cord that ties it to THE reason. Everything that put and kept the southern political class where they were was tied back to the labor that slaves provided. This labor made the economic production and profits possible.
The southerners knew their businesses well. The contemporary historical record clearly shows that virtually every southerner of the political class knew the clear facts: Take away the labor that slaves provided and entire industries like cotton and tobacco became too expensive to be profitable. When the profits disappear, so does the political clout.
Politics then was just like politics now, money buys access and influence and a southern economy without slaves had neither. Perversely, this was much more a known and openly acknowledged fact then, than it is now. And so we still had statutes of Robert E Lee and Jefferson Davis over 150 years later…
Grouse
