Guest Post by Karl Denninger
Really?
REALLY?
Everywhere and anywhere now is banning the Confederate Battle Flag because some jackass shot up a church and it was pretty-clearly a racist attack?
Did we ban the Queeran — or prayer mats — after Hasan shot up a military facility?
No?
Well?
We damn well ought to put historical fact on the Confederacy in the first place; the sole cause was notslavery, although that certainly was a part of it.
Let’s remember that while the Cotton Gin (invented in 1793) greatly increased the production of finished product the same stride forward in technology that produced it also led to the introduction of mechanization of farm labor and that slavery was economically defunct at the time of Lincoln’s election. The Northern states knew it too; the “institution” of slavery was rapidly becoming uneconomic and was destined to die all on its own for economic reasons within a decade. There was no need to go to war over the issue as the machines were vastly more efficient in terms of per-unit labor cost (by a factor of 10 or more!) than human slaves.
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