The Civil War Wasn’t Just About Politics — It Was About Profit, Power, and Human Exploitation
One way to prove the Civil War was centrally about slavery is to look at the land available and the cotton trade and who would be exploited to pick the cotton. At one time in the 1700s, in colonial America, one could purchase 1,000 acres for one-hundred dollars. In 1619 one of the first shipment of enslaved Africans would arrive along with 100 impoverished children, most likely Irish. Many of these children were kidnapped from Irish mothers by the cruel immoral slave owners. Slavery was a very lucrative industry, and many wanted to become members of the upper developing class. They sought to get involved in the trade where one could become wealthy almost overnight.
Before the American Revolution, cheap land and cheap slaves were needed to pick the cotton. The slave trade began to flourish and large slave owning estates grew up in the 13 colonies. This set the stage for greedy dealers of human beings to build up an empire for slavery in the colonies which would eventually lead to the Civil War. This accumulation of human souls would lead to people becoming enormously rich and who thought of themselves as “Kings” and thought of cotton as “King Cotton.” These slave owners thought of themselves as “aristocratic,” and a psychological and sociological mode of thought crept into their minds as a means to boast of their ancestry. Money and interest on the selling of human beings became their main goal in life and this included many U.S. Presidents. One cannot erase this fact from history. They wanted slavery to expand after the American Revolution and did so by murdering Native People and setting up on this stolen land. This is the shameful origins of the United States that everyone is supposed to forget. We won’t!
When the cotton gin was patented by Eli Whitney, a slave owner could gin between 300 and 1,000 pounds of cotton per day, thus making the need for more land and slaves. When Texas was stolen from Mexico in 1836 and in 1846, hordes of these greedy men flooded to Texas like vultures in an attempt to use slaves to produce almost 3 million bales of cotton in 1849. By bringing in more slaves by 1860, almost 5 million bales of the crop were produced. Thus, cheap land, stolen land, with large numbers of enslaved people, became the backbone of the slave plantation class. This class of greedy men would use poor whites to fight their cruel war in 1861 so that they could remain the “gentlemen” of the South.
Many of the so-called founding fathers were slave owners and one stands out because historians like to quote him without talking about his dirty baggage. James Madison, in his old age, had to sell much of his land and dozens of his slaves to keep a roof over his head. Though there were freemen (Black) during this period, many slave owners wanted to get rid of Blacks that were free in anyway they could. In Texas Black freemen were simply chased out. Black freemen became the ‘great menace” and many were kidnapped and sold to the new states and territories. Unfortunately, poor whites were suckered into supporting the slave owners (Robert E. Lee), because they were told that white skin could only remain superior if slavery was maintained. Tens of thousands of poor whites foolishly died for the slave owners for this false promise. In part, this is why wealth is viewed as something to follow even if you are killed for your blindness.
