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Originally Posted by Niccolo
The economy of the Confederate south was not composed of yeoman farmers - far from it. It was more akin to aristocratic-feudalism. The yeoman farmers in the south were the ones who economically suffered from competing against slave-labor. The model for the South was ultimately monarchist or fascist. Nothing democratic about it.
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They at least didn't have to send their kids to sweat in a textile factory, until after the Civil war. I wasn;t really saying the South represented the yeomanry Jefferson envisioned, they were just more likely to become that, if cotton and slavery collapsed, which it may have even if the south won.
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Originally Posted by Niccolo
Say what you want about the North, it is a long established principle that city air makes a man free. Thankfully, the North won and true liberty prevailed.
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I'm sure many, and many still do, sufferred like hell in the poverty of industrial feudalism in the cities.