So the confederate flag is banned from being sold due to social pressure because racist. When are these companies going to ban the Egyptian flag, Roman flag, Russian Empire flag, UK flag, Portuguese flag, Spanish flag, Nazi Germany flag, USSR flag, PR of China flag,  Imperial Japan flag, and South Africa flag? They are all equally if not more racist and certainly more devastating to enslaved populations.

 

The hypocrisy is unreal.

 

Quote:There is no evidence slavery would have ended naturally. There was no antebellum abolitionist movement in the South. To be completely honest the entire social system was set up to reinforce slavery.


Economically speaking, slaves represented real property value. The South's biggest asset wasn't cotton or plantations, it was continual access to the human beings that could harvest the cotton free of charge. This is why the Southern economy collapsed after 1865. "Cotton don't pick itself". Nathan B. Forrest said something along the lines of "I was a millionaire before the war and I leave a pauper" Why? Because he owned multiple plantations and all his 'wealth' was in slaves.

 

Robert E. Lee as well as most Southern historians believed that slavery would have ended not long after the South had won it's freedom. Brazil had slavery well after the US abolished it, but still outlawed it before the turn of the century without civil war. Plantation profitability was plummeting with the introduction of industrialization and machinery and slave labor would not longer be worth its cost in the United States.

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