Paul Craig Roberts is a writer for the Institute for Political Economy and has written a piece that goes into detail about how the American Civil War was not actually fought over the issue of slavery, but over other economic and political woes that forced the hand of the Northern Union government, the feds, to offer an olive branch of sorts to the South to stop them from seceding from the Union.
Roberts writes that the North was not at all concerned about slavery as an issue at that time, even stating that they would end the ability of the Congress to alter the course of individual states’ rights when it came to slavery, which was ultimately rejected. He further notes that the South rejected the olive branch outright because this, to the South, was never about slavery and that the Civil War to come was only said to be fought over this hotly-contested issue because the North won the war and, therefore, were able to write the history.
The “court historians” as he refers to them were able to bend and shape the history in order to make the South look like a bunch of bigoted and racist slave-owners and the North to look like a bunch of saintly abolitionists.
Read on the following page, however, as Roberts’ argument, although technically correct, doesn’t really hold water when you apply the events leading up to the Civil War. It’s an interesting take on the war’s reasoning, though not original, and proves that sometimes even the “court historians” get things right!
What or Who did REPLACE slavery in .europe and america ?? = westrrn CAPITALISM that was NESSESSARY to got the European American INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTiON started…that brought MODERNITY to the whole world.
Instead of slaves its money …capital .to implement inventions for manufacturing
For the best invention is meaning LESS IF it can NOT be produced and sold and for THAT capital.(Money) is needed to buy machinery ecrtra
Liberalism is the cause of Ghettos.
Darrin Burkowske yes, their strategy to keep them poor and vote Democrat on the promise of freebies and perpetuate the victim mindset.
Democrats were the slave holders
I don’t believe in slaves that’s why I hate Democrats.
You realize that 98.5% of the South was raising their cotton without slaves this is the thing that really is the light here
The north kept slaves longer than the south, fact.
Who the hell cares…slavery was wrong, it was ended….whatever happened back then cannot be changed…we can only move forward and be responsible for what we do and how we act today! Blaming people today for what happened over 150 years ago is a waste of time and energy and accomolishes nothing!
Slavery still exist in middle East, Africa and India, plus parts of South America, no one cares right, no demonstrations and not one protest, why?