It's literally the same argument. Even down to "who will pick the cotton"?
People forget that most of the pictures they see of slavery were taken in the 1830's & 1820's. Slave plantations had long since adopted the Cotton Gin, and had actually started using slave labor to repair and maintain the Gins. There were even slaves operating primitive tractors of the era.
Slavery was never an economic boon. It was a Luxury to create status signaling among the elite. The same plantations that used slave labor literally said that things like picking cotton were dishonorable and below the quality of life fit for non-blacks. In reality, it was a culture war that was designed to keep land in the hands of an aristocracy, while using mass migration as a clientele group (remember they were still counted in the census), and it kept entire industries from facing competition due to the low prices that mass scale industrial farming could produce, and the slaves were heavily regulated themselves injecting the government into every aspect of life. All while also using the fear of a slave rebellion to promote more authoritarian control.
You would be stunned to find how many people think blacks couldn't own property before 1964. I actually had to show someone the famous picture of Malcolm X with his M1 Carbine (after the NOI tried assassinating him at his house), and had to explain that it was his house that he owned.
Yes. Farming was profitable for individual people, but the southern aristocracy wanted to be the primary export of Cotton to Britain's Textile Mills (the heart of the industrial revolution at the time). As a result it centralized the economy and kept free southerners from actually sharing in profits and creating intergenerational wealth.
It's literally the same argument. Even down to "who will pick the cotton"?
People forget that most of the pictures they see of slavery were taken in the 1830's & 1820's. Slave plantations had long since adopted the Cotton Gin, and had actually started using slave labor to repair and maintain the Gins. There were even slaves operating primitive tractors of the era.
Slavery was never an economic boon. It was a Luxury to create status signaling among the elite. The same plantations that used slave labor literally said that things like picking cotton were dishonorable and below the quality of life fit for non-blacks. In reality, it was a culture war that was designed to keep land in the hands of an aristocracy, while using mass migration as a clientele group (remember they were still counted in the census), and it kept entire industries from facing competition due to the low prices that mass scale industrial farming could produce, and the slaves were heavily regulated themselves injecting the government into every aspect of life. All while also using the fear of a slave rebellion to promote more authoritarian control.
Same people. Different century.
They’ll yap and yap and yap about “mUh 3/5ths cOmPrOmiSe” but they’ll never tell you which side wanted them to be counted and which side didn’t.
History is just a complete wash to them.
You would be stunned to find how many people think blacks couldn't own property before 1964. I actually had to show someone the famous picture of Malcolm X with his M1 Carbine (after the NOI tried assassinating him at his house), and had to explain that it was his house that he owned.
Slavery held back the south and only benefited slavers and that was only until the cotton gin
Yes. Farming was profitable for individual people, but the southern aristocracy wanted to be the primary export of Cotton to Britain's Textile Mills (the heart of the industrial revolution at the time). As a result it centralized the economy and kept free southerners from actually sharing in profits and creating intergenerational wealth.
Eventually Britain and France just went to India.