The statistical amount of slaveowners among the southern population is not the point. The larger geopolitcal context gets ignored in these debates about whether there was just cause of the South.
The Southern economic core, centered mainly in the cotton planting oligarchs loyal to profit, was in an economic alliance with the British Empire via Free Trade and cheap labor. It was coordinated among a City of London-Wall Street-New Orleans nexus, with NOLA representing like 12% of all U.S. banking capital.
The southern slave states grew to represent the world’s fourth biggest economy through the support of the British Empire both financially and also in the logistical support needed to import mass slavery into the Americas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was to ensure the spread of slavery west of Mississippi.
This was all another example of post-Revolutionary War strategies by the British Empire encouraging financing and supporting any means to undermine the Republic. In that mid 19th century era their specific target became the Union Nationalists including the new Republicans, still maligned today as tyrannical federalists.
So it should be a shocker to absolutely no one who looks into these things that during the entirety of the Civil War the British Empire cheerfully supplied the South with battle ships, weapons and finances to providing logistic and diplomatic support internationally. British Canada housed the Confederacy’s intelligence headquarters which deployed spying, money laundering, and terrorist operations against the Union during the entire war.
The statistical amount of slaveowners among the southern population is not the point. The larger geopolitcal context gets ignored in these debates about whether there was just cause of the South.
The Southern economic core, centered mainly in the cotton planting oligarchs loyal to profit, was in an economic alliance with the British Empire via Free Trade and cheap labor. It was coordinated among a City of London-Wall Street-New Orleans nexus, with NOLA representing like 12% of all U.S. banking capital.
The southern slave states grew to represent the world’s fourth biggest economy through the support of the British Empire both financially and also in the logistical support needed to import mass slavery into the Americas.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was to ensure the spread of slavery west of Mississippi.
This was all another example of post-Revolutionary War strategies by the British Empire encouraging financing and supporting any means to undermine the Republic. In that mid 19th century era their specific target became the Union Nationalists including the new Republicans, still maligned today as tyrannical federalists.
So it should be a shocker to absolutely no one who looks into these things that during the entirety of the Civil War the British Empire cheerfully supplied the South with battle ships, weapons and finances to providing logistic and diplomatic support internationally. British Canada housed the Confederacy’s intelligence headquarters which deployed spying, money laundering, and terrorist operations against the Union during the entire war.