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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 1283890" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>Yep...slaves were money. Billions of dollars worth. Slavery in the South made a minority of white Southerners, owners of large slave holdings, enormously wealthy and they certainly were not going to give this up. If a few slaves were not needed on the plantation they simply leased them to a factory in town and made even more money. And at the same time, it demeaned and exploited Southerners of African descent, left the majority of white Southerners impoverished and uneducated, and retarded the overall economic, cultural, and social growth of the region. Slavery was the institution by which the South defined itself when it chose to secede from the Union. But it was the existence of slavery, with its negative impact on politics, economics, and social relations, that fatally crippled the South in its bid for independence. The union had more factories than the South had factory workers.......and thus you have "The Fall of the House of Dixie".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 1283890, member: 6897"] Yep...slaves were money. Billions of dollars worth. Slavery in the South made a minority of white Southerners, owners of large slave holdings, enormously wealthy and they certainly were not going to give this up. If a few slaves were not needed on the plantation they simply leased them to a factory in town and made even more money. And at the same time, it demeaned and exploited Southerners of African descent, left the majority of white Southerners impoverished and uneducated, and retarded the overall economic, cultural, and social growth of the region. Slavery was the institution by which the South defined itself when it chose to secede from the Union. But it was the existence of slavery, with its negative impact on politics, economics, and social relations, that fatally crippled the South in its bid for independence. The union had more factories than the South had factory workers.......and thus you have "The Fall of the House of Dixie". [/QUOTE]
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