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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by saraid216 on Monday November 04, 2013 @02:34PM (#6670635)
As a vague summary, it's actually not wrong. One of the main reasons that Northerners opposed the Civil War was because they had business interests in the South. And one of the main reasons that Southerners opposed the Civil War was because emancipation would wreck their economy.

But there are dozens of other ways to understand that cross-section of history.

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by wil421 on Monday November 04, 2013 @02:47PM (#6670719)
Exactly, I dont believe that it was THE foundation for our economy. The Industrial Revolution may be THE foundation for our MODERN economy, I dont find agriculture as our foundation anymore. We can literally watch China go through it now.

>But there are dozens of other ways to understand that cross-section of history.

This.

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by thmcmahon on Monday November 04, 2013 @05:12PM (#6671557)
The pre-war southern economy was an agricultural economy made possible by slave labor.

From Wikipedia, but any research will back this up:

While about a third of Southern families were slave owners, most were independent yeoman farmers. Nevertheless, the slave system represented the basis of the Southern social and economic system, and thus even non-slaveowners opposed any suggestions for terminating that system, whether through outright abolition or case-by case emancipation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Southern_United_...

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Re:North Korea’s tablet comes pre-loaded with ‘Gone with the... by wil421 on Monday November 04, 2013 @08:36PM (#6672604)
"a struggle between the bourgeoisie of the north and the landowners of the south."

Your only talking about the South. I was talking about both sides. The quote had both in it too.

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