Comments by "Sar Jim" (@sarjim4381) on "CSS Alabama - Sweet Home Forever At Sea" video.

  1. The British Empire and mercantile establishments of 1859 were as close to pure capitalist as it was possible to be. 160 years later, what remains of the British Empire has somewhat changed.
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  2.  @barleysixseventwo6665  No, only some capitalist countries of 160 years ago endorsed chattel slavery, and the UK wasn't one of them. They outlawed chattel slavery in 1834, and the US outlawed chattel slavery a few years after 1859, in 1865. The only places that have chattel slavery today are non-capitalistic totalitarian theocracies. Nice try though.
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  3.  @Zarastro54  I don't think "pacify" is quite the right term, since it was four years of bloody, brutal warfare before the Confederacy was worn down enough to surrender. It's rather like saying the Allies pacified Germany or Japan in WWII.
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  4. Correct, but close enough for a non-Union historian. :-)
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