I read it. Agree with most of it, but you left out the north''s extortion of taxing the south so THEY could process the cotton. Bottom line is had slavery been abolished when the Brits did it, the war might have not happened..
An American South without slavery. A Scots-Irish population.
Look at the magnificent performance of the at that time largely Scots-Irish populations of Northern Massachusetts, New Hampshire (“Live Free or Die”) and New Hampshire Grant (Vermont) in our own Revolutionary War. Elsewhere the Scots -Irish doing a disproportionate amount of the fighting and I believe bequeathing to us a distinctively American Second Amendment, self-reliant mindset.
A South without the curse of slavery coulda been absolutely frickin’ awesome, was still awesome even with slavery.
OTOH our music might have sucked 🙂
