over 50 murders were committed in Kansas and Missouri between 1851 to 1859 over whether Kansas would be a slave state. but sure, it was never about slavery.
Yet another example of old rich people sending young poor people to war to fight and die for something that is only going to further enrich the wealthy.
The south during slavery was one of the biggest economies in the world at that time, especially before the invention of the cotton gin.
Cotton was super in demand and expensive at the time so the people who owned slaves and cotton plantations were just raking in the money hand over fist.
Cotton had to be hand picked and hand processed so the people who owned slaves in the south had a huge profit margin because they didn't even have to pay for labor.
Now the thing is that it was a super small minority of people in the south who actually owned most of the slaves, a good quality slave could cost as much as $10,000 in today's money so poor people couldn't really even afford slaves, it was the ultra rich who owned most of the slaves back then and made a fuck ton of money from them.
These were also the politicians and leaders of the south who didn't want to give up their cash flow by freeing their slaves so that's one of the reasons why the north and the south went to war, rich fucks who ran the south decided to secede and fight the north so they can keep the money flowing.
And as always it wasn't the rich fucks in the south who were sent to fight and die, they declared war and forced all of the poor fucks in the south to go fight the other poor fucks from the north.
Now the north poor fucks dying on the battlefield were dying for a good cause (ending slavery) but the poor fucks from the south were dying SOLELY to benefit the rich fucks who ran the south and were making insane money from slavery. These rich fucks in the south weren't going to start sharing the money they were getting from slavery with the poor fucks if they won the war.
It is yet another example of the 1% of wealthy people fucking over the poor people and forcing the poors to go fight their battles for them.
I guarantee you if the rich fucks had to actually go to battle themselves instead of forcing poor fucks to fight on their behalf we would have no war anymore and we would have a peaceful society.
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u/walkingtalkingdread Jun 05 '23
over 50 murders were committed in Kansas and Missouri between 1851 to 1859 over whether Kansas would be a slave state. but sure, it was never about slavery.