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Greatest Emancipations is an historical account of how all the nations of the Western world — except for the U.S. — ended slavery peacefully by utilizing multiple strategies. These strategies, implemented by the British, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danes, and others, included slave rebellions, abolitionist campaigns to gain public support for abolition, election of antislavery politicians, encouragement and assistance of runaway slaves, raising private funds to purchase the freedom of slaves, and the use of taxpayer funds to buy the freedom of slaves.Cotton exports were the primary US export from 1800 to 1930. You can see from the chart below that cotton was responsible for 57 percent of all US exports when the war broke out. You will not find any other export which had as big a footprint nor one which was the number one export for as long a period. Go ahead and try.
The slave population in the South was 650,000 at the time the Constitution was ratified. This is why the South was agreeable to the compromise in the Constitution which ordered the end of the importation of slaves by 1808.
However, between 1790 and 1808, the English and US textile industries exploded due to technological advances including more than just the cotton gin. Everyone has heard of Eli Whitney, but few have heard of Samuel Slater, "Father of the American Industrial revolution". This industrial advancement made textiles much cheaper, and thus greatly increased the demand for cotton. The demand for cotton drove the invention of the cotton gin, not the other way around.
The increased demand for cotton, in turn, required more slave labor.
So when the 1808 timeframe rolled around, the South began reneging on the Constitutional ban.
The slave population steadily and rapidly increased to the point that the slave population was 4 million in the South at the outbreak of the Civil War.
Only a fool claims slavery was dying out.
This is why after the Civil War, Jim Crow laws were enacted to keep blacks in the cotton fields.
"the Great Depression did not end for some reason".
The reason it did not end is because we were on the gold standard.
Those countries which had abandoned the gold standard did not experience a depression, and those nations which abandoned the gold standard the soonest during the Depression recovered the soonest.
We had more frequent, longer lasting, and deeper recessions and depressions while we were on the gold standard than after we got off the gold standard.
I can't help but wonder if you are using "globalists" as a euphemism for "Jews".
There was violence in some cases, but nothing remotely approaching the death and destruction of the War between the States. "Ultimately," Powell argues, "the more violence was involved in the emancipation process, the worse the outcomes were, making a provocative case for peaceful antislavery strategies."
How the West Ended Slavery - LewRockwell
DIGG THIS When Jim Powell wrote an article for the Web site "History News Network" (HNN) regarding his new book, Greatest Emancipations: How the West Ended Slavery, he was immediately denounced by some of the commentators on the site. One Lewis Bernstein said he was sick and tired of "those like...
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