The year that was.

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We started the year with the usual it was slavery, no it was not scrimmaging. We ended, IMHO, with a bit more nuanced view amid the scrimmaging.

It was slavery for sure, but something happened besides the fleets of Rhode Islanders bringing in illicit slaves contracted by Southerners--illicit cargo like slaves has a buyer in hand before taking the risk--can't just show up at a Southern port with all the law enforcement about and gold has to be on hand ahead of time, not a good thing to go to the bank and ask for loans on illicit cargo and local law enforcement as to paid off not only to ignore the landing but the fact that the titles are defective and the slaves speak African languages and not American. So yea, it was contracted ahead of time.

At the eve of the Revolution, slavery was the natural order of things and the coalition of rebels was one about slavery. By the end of the revolution Northerners had second thoughts about this freedom thing and maybe slavery wasn't all that good such that as the price of Union the Southern coalition demanded to be in charge of the nation figuring that between the population in the South being greater than the North and the extra boost from the 3/5 clause the South would be.

Things did not work out that way. The lack of slavery in the North attracted immigrants and industry boomed. The cities became crowded and one way to avoid riots and adverse elections was to send the excess population West to farm. The Free Labor, Free Men, Free Soil movement was born. The South became concerned. The North developed a different civilization from the revolutionary days. The South for the life of the republic has threatened to leave if their demands were not met. In 1860, their demands were not met. The South left. Unfortunately, it was too late. The North was too strong, the South was too arrogant and the North was not abiding the leaving.

Yes, it was slavery, but it also was that the 7,500 year slavery labor ideology was fading fast. There would be no allies this time. The Confederacy was simply too late, its dependence on slave labor put its technology and industry to far behind, its political infrastructure unable to forge a strong nation. Caliviers, slaves, and peasants had gone out of date.

The root cause of the Civil War is Slavery and things changed.
 
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