Harambe wrote:
Reflection_ wrote:
I would agree that slavery being wrong wasn’t the main reason for the civil war. The whole idea that the civil war was fought due to morales is ridiculous!! It was about power and control. Slavery was bad because it was as allowing the south to become too economically powerful and leverage too obvious an advantage from free labor.
So whenever I hear ppl saying “we” ended slavery as if it was a moral victory it’s just further proof of a failed educational system. Slavery would probably still exist if there were any other better means to address the south’s economic advantage.
No, the South wanted to keep owning slaves. They quit the USA to ensure that.
The North smacked them around because of it and forcibly brought them back into the Union. The end.
Yes you are wrong. But I will dummy down my original comment by using your words to bring context and clarity.
“The south wanted to keep owning slaves.”
Slaves were business property not loving pets thus tied into the south’s economy. It wasn’t just as simple as saying their main economic means was agriculture. No business is sustainable without workers. The vast majority of white southerners were poor and worked for slave owners....slaves were free labor!
Ppl need to get out of their heads that slavery was just a human rights and moral violation. It was a thriving economic sector!! [\b]
“They quit the USA to ensure that.”
Correct they wanted to part ways because their economic stability depended on owning slaves. Again money move. Their racist ideology only sought to justify whom to make slaves.[\b]
“The North smacked them around because of it and forcibly brought them back into the Union.”
The North indeed won and all but assured that the south’s economic dominance (from slavery) was adverted. The North main reason was never to “free slaves” because it was wrong. Free slaves meant no free labor. They all compromised thru political and legal means to avoid another civil war in the future. This allowed for some of the south’s racist institutional systems and ways to continue and become apart of American society as a whole.
Such as in American policing and the repositioning of slave patrollers as “peace” or police officers. The south with the help of the 13th amendment’s loophole reinvented slavery in a new way thru criminalization and mass incarceration.
“The end.”
The beginning of the US government’s complicity with institutional racism.[\b]