Indeed, it's not hard to imagine the crisis of the WWII era going very differently.
Had the cotton gin not been invented, the pernicious form that slavery took in the US would not have developed. It's hard to guess what forms the political and cultural conflict between the agrarian South and industrial North would have taken in the absence of slavery. Would the split have been less, or just different?
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Date: 29/11/10 22:41 (UTC)Had the cotton gin not been invented, the pernicious form that slavery took in the US would not have developed. It's hard to guess what forms the political and cultural conflict between the agrarian South and industrial North would have taken in the absence of slavery. Would the split have been less, or just different?