Posted on 08/11/2017 1:40:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A great post that supports my logic about Lincoln in the post below #39.
If you do the calculations relative to the number of people living in the south the percent of money going to the federal government was at least 90%
The New York bankers and the New England mill owners would never give away any land that grew cotton or any land that brought in that much money.
Might I add the entire myth of the “Pilgrims” aka the “Separatists” was post War Between the States.
This was an attempt to erase the fact “American” began in Virginia.
Insult to injury, Thanksgiving was a tradition that started in Virginia.
It also led to a nine volume alternate history series about the history of the USA and CSA as they struggle for supremacy on the continent. Harry Turtledove is a really entertaining ‘alternate historian’.
More accurately the bulk of tax revenues were provided by slave labor.
This is exactly correct and Washington DC was content to let the money from slave labor keep rolling in. What they objected to was the stoppage of all that slave earned money.
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