Slavery was certainly part of it, as slave economies require territorial expansion to sustain themselves. Every confederate state being able to make it's own foreign policy was the larger concern. With the means and the motive, had the confederacy been left alone, a subtropical empire stretching from the pacific ocean to the Caribbean would have likely developed. The dairies of influential southerners after General Lee surrendered, laying out their reasons to resist and hopes for the future, was what changed my mind about the trope that the civil war was only about slavery.
Thanks for the explanation. So funny how something so logical sounding is not taught in our schools.
Why do slave economies require territorial expansion?
The idea that confederate states wanted to make their own foreign policy is so interesting. I suppose implicit in that is because they have different imports and exports for the simple difference of climate and crops.
Kinda like Lincoln putting black soldiers in the south after the civil war to cause shit.
Was the civil war about slavery? Was slavery going to be abolished whether there was war or not? Genuinely curious.
Slavery was certainly part of it, as slave economies require territorial expansion to sustain themselves. Every confederate state being able to make it's own foreign policy was the larger concern. With the means and the motive, had the confederacy been left alone, a subtropical empire stretching from the pacific ocean to the Caribbean would have likely developed. The dairies of influential southerners after General Lee surrendered, laying out their reasons to resist and hopes for the future, was what changed my mind about the trope that the civil war was only about slavery.
Thanks for the explanation. So funny how something so logical sounding is not taught in our schools.
Why do slave economies require territorial expansion?
The idea that confederate states wanted to make their own foreign policy is so interesting. I suppose implicit in that is because they have different imports and exports for the simple difference of climate and crops.