Another Validation – 17 January 2021
If you’ve been following me from the beginning, 2008, or read either of my books, The Heartland Plan and The Albany Plan Revisited, you know that there was much, much more to The War of 1861 than is taught. You will know that slavery, as slavery, had little to do with the secessions. You will also know how much emphasis that I, and many others, place on the mercantilist economics of the Americas, from 1492 through 1888, as being a, if not the, primary force of that age.
In my, and the writings of mostly Southern academics, emphasis is placed on how The South was not only the Milch Cow of the North, but how The South did not profit from the slave-cotton agricultural industry.
In the December issue of BBC History Magazine, Vol 21 no 12, p 44, is an article, The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes, by Corinne Fowler. In researching the history of many of Britain’s stately homes and estates, she freely discusses how so many of them were financed through colonialist mal-appropriation of native resources, especially from slavery of so many different peoples. As noted in many places, especially this blog, The South did not profit from the slavery forced upon it by the British Crown in 1620, to the extent that so many ignoranti scree.
For more on the British Colonial Countryside project, visit BBC Radio 3’s Arts & Ideas at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/07q19kk .
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Another Validation – 17 Jan 2021
Another Validation – 17 January 2021
If you’ve been following me from the beginning, 2008, or read either of my books, The Heartland Plan and The Albany Plan Revisited, you know that there was much, much more to The War of 1861 than is taught. You will know that slavery, as slavery, had little to do with the secessions. You will also know how much emphasis that I, and many others, place on the mercantilist economics of the Americas, from 1492 through 1888, as being a, if not the, primary force of that age.
In my, and the writings of mostly Southern academics, emphasis is placed on how The South was not only the Milch Cow of the North, but how The South did not profit from the slave-cotton agricultural industry.
In the December issue of BBC History Magazine, Vol 21 no 12, p 44, is an article, The colonial secrets of Britain’s stately homes, by Corinne Fowler. In researching the history of many of Britain’s stately homes and estates, she freely discusses how so many of them were financed through colonialist mal-appropriation of native resources, especially from slavery of so many different peoples. As noted in many places, especially this blog, The South did not profit from the slavery forced upon it by the British Crown in 1620, to the extent that so many ignoranti scree.
For more on the British Colonial Countryside project, visit BBC Radio 3’s Arts & Ideas at bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/07q19kk .
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