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Originally Posted by JuicyBunny
South provided raw materials, north provided manufacturing. If they had gone to stalemate and just glared at each other over the borders of the MD line, sooner or later both sides would have collapsed. Lincoln knew it and even said it. Both sides were interdependent but north wanted control. Usually when you try to control a southerner you get,  and thats why Edmund Ruffin said fuck it and fired the first shot. Probably at the direction of his battery commander, Stephen Elliott. (Slave owning gentry.)
Wealthy landed gentry pushed the south into it to protect their holdings. Slavery was on its way out. Much cheaper to follow the northern example of freeing people, paying them pennies a week and make them responsible for themselves.
The same way landed gentry pushed the colonies into the American revolution. Its always about the $$$ and POWER. |
i have to disagree that slavery was on the way out. in fact, quite the opposite- it was expanding and crucial. as i stated earlier, the South fought to protect their economy, a slave economy, so yes, it was about $$$ and power, the money and power that is derived from the antebellum slave economy.