Quote:Not ignoring just putting it in context. There was no agriculture anywhere in the world without slavery and agriculture was their lively hood.

 

Actually, chattel slavery was outlawed by the British Empire 40 years before the American Civil War and most of their agricultural consumption moved to Egypt and India as a result of our continued dependency on it. As the declining Superpower and one of the key customers of the American South it put great strain on the South's ability to wage war because they were no longer indispensable to the Limeys by 1863. Any notion that the American Civil War was, fundamentally, about anything OTHER than slavery is Lost Cause Revisionism. 85 years of infighting over the Peculiar Institution finally erupted in blood and death, with, as I originally stated, WAR ending it here in the USA once and for all.

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