Look, if a "was the Civil War worth it" debate is what it takes for the takeosphere to shut up about Harper's, I'm for it.https://twitter.com/JimBovard/status/1281274522709172225 …
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The Confederate worldview was largely based on neo-feudalism, with the plantation economy standing in for the estate and slaves for serfs. Jefferson's Lockean gloss confuses causes in effect. The Confederacy had rationalizations, not reasons.
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Like all ideologies it was a mishmash but the idea that property (even human property) is sacred was crucial, and much of the neo-feudialism was just Walter Scott LARPing.
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yep. under London, North American slaveowners were one constituency among many, and one whose influence may have been on the decline because of developments elsewhere in the Atlantic world. but as part of a new independent republic, they were quite influential.
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But with the industrial revolution and the rise of the cotton economy, their influence in London may have risen again.
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It did transform the slaveholding elite into a major political constituency from a peripheral, parochial one. But this is a very limited view of the American Revolution.
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Right -- the Revolution also gave impetus and legitimacy to the emerging anti-slavery movement. It was a contrary phenomenon and out of its contradictions led to the civil war.
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Popkin makes a similar argument in “You Shall All Be Free,” namely that the impossibility of reconciling "sacred" property rights with the “rights of man” made violent struggle likely if not inevitable in Haiti and the USpic.twitter.com/xSSrirmxfP
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It's not the main thrust of the conversation here, but I feel like there's not enough emphasis on the rest of "Lockean property rights" as prescribed, namely the requirement "where there is enough, and as good, left in common for others."
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