Abolitionist writer Lysander Spooner, reflecting on the outcome of the US Civil War
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Correct, and the holy Emancipation Proclamation was a mere war maneuver. It didn't "free the slaves" either, and in fact gave the North and any state (or even county) who converted to the North carve outs to continue to own slaves for a while.
The North was pissed the South was doing well, and wanted "their cut" of the profits.
More specifically, the Jew bankers took issue with the fact they couldn’t manipulate the market since cotton and other supplies kept the South’s economy very resistant to change vs the north
I know that had the South separated at the time, it would have been something like the world's third largest economy, which was the primary reason the North refused to allow them to secede (since they paid the majority of all federal taxes). But were Jewish bankers really so entrenched and influential even back then that they would have been able to influence most key figures into waging a civil war? Jews are overrepresented in most influential fields today because of generations of people engaging in rampant nepotism, but back in the 18th century, it just seems like they would have had less time to set that up.