There’s a ratchet effect, though.
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I suspect automation moved the needle a lot more than sermons.
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Yep, familiar with that theory. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about general industrialization of north making it slowly less dependent on southern economy for feeding textile mills, and easier to cut it off.
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?? textile mills, like the cotton gin, automated processes downstream of raw cotton, which still depended on slave labor. pbs.org/wnet/african-a (I'll shut up now since I don't really have any deep knowledge in this area)
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Yes, that’s what I mean. The entire cotton economy was becoming less important.
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I find sudden new appearances of mass consciousness suspicious.
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Ehh, “paradigm shifts” as Kuhn said. They aren’t really sudden, or at least they build up for decades or centuries, it just seems sudden when an old paradigm falls out of solution. Then there’s reaction and/or consolidation and the process starts again.
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