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Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:49:05 GMT
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Jeez, that’s a good question. Would the DOI and Constitution ever have been
signed if the forward-thinking FF had demanded the abolition of slavery?
And what would have happened to the infant US economy in the wake of this
demand?
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Good question in turn. Taking that a bit further, what would have happened in
Britain? Would the industrial revolution taken a different turn or been
significantly delayed because cotton was more expensive?
That’s an assumption that might not be valid either but it has been argued
that both cheap labor and the cotton gin were necessary preconditions to
cheap cotton, which in turn was a necessary precondition to the rise of the
cloth mills in Britain, which it has been argued, vastly accelerated the pace
of mechanical innovation, as well as generating significant new wealth via a
new mechanism (manufacturing it, rather than taking it away from serfs or
indigenous peoples by force or chicanery)..
That wealth allegedly in turn had two knock-on effects: Money to be spent on
new manufactured goods of other sorts (by the owners dependents, by workers
and their dependents) and things like investing in transport and other sorts
of manufacturing concerns (by the owners themselves after they made piles of
profit), and strengthening the idea that one could get ahead via trade rather
than force of arms.
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Did the IR not also make the slave trade economical by inflating the price of
slaves?
Scott A
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Lots of “it is alleged”s there but interesting questions.
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