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08-11-2015, 11:02 PM
(08-11-2015, 11:09 AM)BelieveIn308 Wrote: I disagree. Slavery was a PART of the reason for the Civil War. Specifically the expansion of slavery. Also the abolish movement was a factor. You are correct however, in that the cotton gin was making slavery economically unviable. That is why the British abolished it. I would say slavery was a bigger deal in the North than the South clearly. A study of politics in the South and such leaders as "States Rights" Gist (his actual given name) prove that it was about states rights more than anything, and not willing to be told what to do by northern states. Interestingly enough the Civil War didn't prove or disprove a states right to leave the Union. It maintained the union by force of arms. It would be an interesting court case if a state filed suit to leave the Union, and let the SCOTUS decide the issue.
I thought slavery was dying until the invention of the cotton gin not because of it. Less slaves may have been needed but plantations would have continued to grow in size because the owners would have been able to handle more with the slaves they had. Not unlike what has happened with farms today. Slavery alone did not scale well but slavery + mechanization does.
(08-11-2015, 11:09 AM)BelieveIn308 Wrote: I disagree. Slavery was a PART of the reason for the Civil War. Specifically the expansion of slavery. Also the abolish movement was a factor. You are correct however, in that the cotton gin was making slavery economically unviable. That is why the British abolished it. I would say slavery was a bigger deal in the North than the South clearly. A study of politics in the South and such leaders as "States Rights" Gist (his actual given name) prove that it was about states rights more than anything, and not willing to be told what to do by northern states. Interestingly enough the Civil War didn't prove or disprove a states right to leave the Union. It maintained the union by force of arms. It would be an interesting court case if a state filed suit to leave the Union, and let the SCOTUS decide the issue.
I thought slavery was dying until the invention of the cotton gin not because of it. Less slaves may have been needed but plantations would have continued to grow in size because the owners would have been able to handle more with the slaves they had. Not unlike what has happened with farms today. Slavery alone did not scale well but slavery + mechanization does.
I thought slavery was dying until the invention of the cotton gin not because of it. Less slaves may have been needed but plantations would have continued to grow in size because the owners would have been able to handle more with the slaves they had. Not unlike what has happened with farms today. Slavery alone did not scale well but slavery + mechanization does.