Independence Day was in the long run a way for Britain to offshore its slavery and Native genocide operations while maintaining profit tieshttps://twitter.com/johnfugelsang/status/882358103295090688 …
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Which isn't a defense of slaveowners -- fuck them -- but the North also didn't care abt compensating the freedmen for their unpaid labor
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In that sense the South's complaint that the war was a big transfer of wealth to the North was vaguely accurate
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because there was a bubble in the 1840s and1850s
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