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> Americans felt the matter is important enough to start a civil war around it. The answer was the same then as it is now: big business. Slave labor cash crops
by nerdponx 2y ago
> Americans felt the matter is important enough to start a civil war around it.
The answer was the same then as it is now: big business. Slave labor cash crops were central to the economy of the South. Great Britain was not dependent on it in the same way.
- fuzzfactor 2y ago>Slave labor cash crops were central to the economy of the South. Even more so the economy of Wall Street.