“One of the most destructive wars in human history”
“One of” is doing some heavy lifting there.
It definitely was one of the wars!
I mean, it’s currently at number 50 on Wikipedia’s list of wars by death toll (out of 130 listed conflicts). I feel like that might qualify as one of the most destructive, but it’s obviously a subjective description.
Also, at the time, it would have been quite a bit higher on the list.
It really doesn’t. Destructive is a much broader term than casualties, especially military.
Among the local wars between northern american people at the time, it was one of the most destructive!
If you think THAT’S stupid, wait until you see what they start THIS one over.
It was about states rights /s.
States rights to…(fill in the blank here) 😉
Just for reference the /s is an internet wide symbol for sarcasm aka I’m joking. Near its peak (1860) about 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. In the states where slavery was legal, approximately 25% of all white households owned at least one enslaved person, and in the Deep South, this figure approached 50%. So yeah states rights to own slaves.
You’re good lol I was just riffing. I appreciate the sincere explanation though /gen /pos 😄
Welcome to industrialization
Industrialization in the form of the cotton gin was one of the main reasons slavery was so profitable in the South. What are you talking about?
Slavery was even dying before the cotton gin was invented. It’s inventor even thought it would end slavery; but ironically for him, it did the opposite.
Turns out if you can use less slaves to make the same amount of cotton, demand goes up and thus supply must too.
I’m talking about basing an economy off of one export and then starting a war with the dudes who have all the boats and manufacturing!
A southerner would think they would lose the export anyway due to abolition. So gambling on the union not being that keen on fighting may be sensible.
While the rest of the world perfects wind and solar, the United States is fighting a bloody, expensive war for oil.
Same or different?
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