Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "Fact Feast"
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Not hard to imagine that all of Manchester as the first textile manufacturing city of the world was completely dependent on the cotton produced by slavery in the Southern States of America. For this reason the British national policy was sympathetic to the slaveholders of the South. The North was its industrialized competition. Cotton was the raw material the Manchester industries required for the production of a range of products and clothing. The factory system and a Working Class. The human part of that equation was expected to mature and take over the factories but for a short brief period right after the second world war some industries were nationalized only to be sold in a later period as prime capital merchandize and much of that free market success can be credited not to the Beatles but to Margaret Thatcher. Cities were built to accommodate the factory. When the factory goes the city goes is a thought that must have crossed the minds of the planners of Detroit back then. They went ahead anyway planning a city totally useless if the factory goes under is permissible under de-regulated social conditions the Congress was sure to legislate.
When British manufacturing processes were replicated by the Americans the textile industries in the northern states of America had acquired a working class right off the boat the unemployed from Europe was more pressure on Washington to open up the west and the south by clearing away native Americans and the Slaveholders of the South. Make room for the new relationship capital has with labor on the industrial end that is not slave based was a bonus to co-opt the moral elements in support of a war with the South.
Technically, the roots of the Civil War are in the Revolutionary War which was a call for armed struggle. Rich slave holders in America with roots in nobilities of Europe enlightened by the ideas of the age for independence from and of kings and monarchs became a vanguard for a new country. The only way to do that was to fight the British for independence. The thriving trade of that age was the slave trade that all partook barring pirates, a natural ally for slaves. So it would mean the founding fathers had another idea about independence than we have.
Pirates were a resistance force against the slave trade as a system and way of life. The first establishment settlement before Jamestown was St. Augustine Florida, a free settlement that combined pirates and runaway slaves, army deserters, native Americans, Spanish, African, were all equally free as the next person within boundary of the settlement is really the first dysfunctional, I would imagine, establishment in North America. In many ways St. Augustine is America’s first prison that guarded the free-state inside from the absence of freedom on the outside.
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