Steve Skrobot
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

All this talk about slavery being the cause of the war makes me wonder how much attention has been paid to technology. While the technical, legal and so-called moral issues leading up to the disagreement of the states as to states’ rights, etc. was brewing, how many historians trouble themselves to investigate that mechanisation and machines, and northern capital and the steamroller effect of the industrial revolution was making negro chattel obsolete? Nobody discusses how the powerful banking interests and investors from the north wanted to modernize. They wanted to invest in machines and modern techniques of capital-building. An agrarian economy based on forced labour stood in their way, so they steamrolled the south to set up a more modern form of exploitation. And nobody talks about it as being the real undercurrent of the conflict. Believe me, most white men back then couldn’t give a rat’s ass about a black man dead or alive except for the poor suckers who were unaware that a more greedy and authoritarian monster called international banking was setting them all up for bloodshed for profit. Nobody cared about the blacks then or now.

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