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If you want to make a point about antebellum economics, fine, but all the outrage and pathos and resentment and victim talk on behalf of plantation owners who really don't deserve it makes you view ugly and absurd (if it wasn't already).

Consider what was actually happening on the plantations before you start talking about the planters and the "bastards that had gotten rich off of their blood."

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If you want to make a point about antebellum economics, fine, but all the outrage and pathos and resentment and victim talk on behalf of plantation owners who really don't deserve it makes you view ugly and absurd

You seem to think that only the plantation owners suffered. There were 750,000 people killed as a direct result of that war, and nearly half of them were from a population 1/4th the size of the other.

Something like 20% of the South's population was killed trying to stop the invaders, and i've read that as many as 2 million died as a result of the aftermath.

I haven't given a care about the plantation owners. They fancied themselves as the same sort of Aristocrat that our Betters in New York (Jimmy Kimmel crowd) want to think they are.

Consider what was actually happening on the plantations before you start talking about the planters and the "bastards that had gotten rich off of their blood."

It is your mind that focuses on the planters. I was thinking of the vast bulk of the population that did not own slaves.