British banks financed the south's slave economy to keep the English
mills supplied with cotton. That included mortgages to finance the
south's internal trade in African slaves.
I doubt you even know where the Mason-Dixon line is.
At the time the U.S. Constitution was ratified there were slave holders
and African slaves in ALL of the original states. As the states NORTH of
the Mason-Dixon line abolished chattel slavery within their borders, the
majority of slave-holders sold their slaves south rather than free them.
But there were free Africans in many southern states before the American
Civil War.
Many were former slaves who had earned enough to purchase their freedom
(yes, slaves could earn money & were even allowed to keep their
earnings). Some were the children of former slaves who were born into
freedom. Some of them were even prosperous enough to own other Africans
as slaves.
And in some states of the Confederacy (although not all), free Africans
managed to retain their freedom even after secession.
On 11/17/2015 10:04 PM, knarf wrote:
Whatever or whoever started it, slavery more than thrived once the
Brits were ousted. Plantation owners weren't exactly turning their
backs on all that free labour after 1776. In fact it was a necessary
part of the plantation system in the South; without slaves, American
cotton wouldn't have been competitive in world markets.
The thing about institutionalized slavery in pre-bellum US is that,
unlike most other nations where slavery was legal (and there were
many) slaves could never buy their freedom in the US. There were no
free black persons below the Mason - Dixon Line by law. That makes US
slavery different from every form of slavery before or since.
I don't know that Britain can be blamed for that...
Cheers,
frank
On November 17, 2015 5:03:08 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola"
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 4:55 PM, P.J. Alling
<[email protected]> wrote:
I don't know what weed you're smoking but slavery, prior to
England suppressing it was ubiquitous, in human society
I don't smoke.
Slavery may have been "ubiquitous," but it was Britain that brought
it to North America, for the profit of British companies. That can
not be denied.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
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