<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Jul 3, 2020, at 1:07 PM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> The American Civil War, however, was really about The South breaking away to preserve its slave system. </span><div style=""><div dir="ltr" style=""><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px">Dan</span></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Which of course means it was really about money - the money they had spent on the slaves and the money they would have to pay them to pick cotton. No question. Money.</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">bill w</font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It’s interesting to put it that way because philosopher Roderick Long pointed out that before the war, the North was anti-slavery but also fairly mercantilist (anti-free trade) while they South was pro-slavery yet pro-free trade. This seems like a contradiction. Long opined that since slavery wasn’t central to the North’s economy (or its ruling class), it could afford to be anti-slavery, but manufacturing was central so manufacturing business elites didn’t want European goods competing against them, so they were against free trade. (The GOP was also anti-free trade at the time it formed and remained so for much of its history.)</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The South (or its ruling class) on the other hand saw slavery as central, abolition was off the table. However, the South didn’t have a huge manufacturing sector, so being pro-free trade didn’t threaten many established interests.<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>