The British, slavery, and the Confederacy
Slavery of "the Negro" was sustained throughout the world by the British by making people economically dependant on the British. See video: The British sustained the African slave trade "Truth is strange but a truth it is" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEFuBPPC0fo Perry Noble http://books.google.com/books?id=vdxBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q=&f=false "Napoleon, enslaver of the Negro even more than of other men" "Free Trade, The Confederacy, and the Political Economy of Slavery" by Frederic W. Henderson Printed in the American Almanac, November 11, 1991 http://american_almanac.tripod.com/fwhfree2.htm "The South, Slavery and Free Trade That precisely this had occurred in the better part of the South, was obvious to those "American System" Whigs, allied with Carey, who fought for an alternative policy during the 1840's and 50's. The southern economy had become almost exclusively a slave based, cash crop agricultural one, totally dependant on British markets, and totally indebted to British or British allied finance. As a result, close to between 80 to 90% of all land in the slave states was owned by the approximately 2 to 3% of the population who were slaveholders; three hundred and fifty thousand slaveholders in a population of 11 million. Of these no more than one hundred thousand owed two-thirds of all the land and 90% of all the enslaved black population of 4 million. The bulk of the remaining white population were either landless or struggled to etch out an existence on small farms generally located in the regions poorest agricultural area's. What little industry that existed was rudimentary and primitive in character. The southern economy was totally dependant on outside markets for the sale of its two major export commodities, raw, unfinished cotton and to a lesser degree rice; it was similarly totally dependant on outside markets for the bulk of its foodstuffs, almost all consumer goods, and virtually all capital goods. Almost no other of the extensive mineral and natural resources in these southern states were developed or harnessed. As Thaddeus Stevens, a close ally of Henry Carey, would argue in 1850, comparing Virginia, as an example of the all the southern states, the disparities between north and south were striking.... Along with the development of an industrial economy, agriculture in the northern states had become significantly more productive. The reasons can be seen in the fact that investments in both agricultural and manufacturing were vastly greater in the northern free states than in the slave labor economy of the south; both the value of farm machinery and implements per acre and per farm laborer in the south were approximately one half that in the north. A more telling figure is the percentage of capital invested in manufacturing; in 1860 over 84% of the U.S. total was invested in the north, with a mere 16% in the south; the per capita dollar figure in the north was four times that in the south despite the North's greater population. As this brutally primitive style of agriculture depleted the soil, for southern capital was tied up in land and slaves, and therefore barred any investment in improvements in cultivation, diversification, or new technologies, the surge for yet new and untapped land in the deep south, the so-called "black belt" states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, along with the demand for even greater numbers of slave laborers, turned the older planter states like Virginia into slave breeders. By the mid 1850's slaves were Virginia's primary export, and the supply of such slave laborers for deep south plantations became the major economic activity of the old south. While cotton, and rice were still produced in the states of the old south, they generated such low yields, that they no longer were economically viable without massive increases in labor intensity. With little or no investment in any other form of economic activity, by 1860 these areas of the old south were themselves enslaved to a slave based economy, with their productive capacity at feudal levels, and the indebtedness to British "factors" reaching astronomical proportions. Virginia, for example, was so exhausted economically, that while the rest of the south renewed the call for reopening the African slave trade, Virginia consistently opposed such a measure, for an alternative supply of cheap slave labor to the rest of the south would have bankrupted her. In South Carolina, the oldest of the cotton states, agricultural yields per laborer had dropped to levels that were staggering, producing a black slave population that was 125,000 or 20% greater than that of whites; and this despite the export of slave laborers to the deep south."
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If this is what Jesus represents, then I am glad I am no longer Christian.
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MONEY IS SLAVE OF ALL PEOLPLE
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Laying all this on the shoulders of the British is a bit unfair, especially considering that it was the other colonial powers and the Arabs that started the intercontinental slave trade and continued it long after Britain had discontinued it. Also the plantation system was invented by the Portuguese. Slavery was not part of English law and tradition, but the Mediterranean basin (including the Barbary states, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, etc.) had a long history of enslaving people of other cultures.
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yes but the british were also one of the first to actively try and stop it and even patrolled the African coast to try and prevent it. also i like how you left out that the only market worth selling in was America, because it was you guy that wanted all the slaves.
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The Arab slave trade was an entirely different slave trade than the Atlantic Slave trade and there were far more deaths in that one than the Atlantic slave trade. There is no exempt group of those that participated. Jews, Dutch, British, Spaniards, Portuguese, French, & all their outcasts & descendants who infested the Americas with this wickedness. ALL RESPONSIBLE. ALL PARTICIPATED.
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