I think you don’t give enough credence to slavery as an economic issue
I never ignore the economic. But to say that slavery was not an issue ignores the other 500 pound gorilla.
I’m tapped out on the issue. And have honeydos to do.
Good day.
Then you misunderstand me. I believe slavery was *ENTIRELY* an economic issue, at least among the power brokers of both the North and the South.
I never ignore the economic. But to say that slavery was not an issue ignores the other 500 pound gorilla.
It wasn't the issue that started the war. It was the debate about who was going to get to divvy up that slave produced money that started the war.
At the beginning of the war, the fight was over where the money was going to go, not whether or not slaves were going to create. So far as all parties were concerned in 1861, the slaves were going to continue creating the money. The only question was, was the money going to go to New York with Washington collecting it's share, or was the money going to go to Norfolk, Charleston, Mobil and New Orleans?
I’m tapped out on the issue. And have honeydos to do.
Not me. I'm still learning more things about it every week. I find this previously hidden aspect of the Civil War to be quite fascinating. Following the money makes a lot of events clearer to me now than they were when I first learned of them years ago.
Good day.
And good day to you too!