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   Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 04:17:04 JST Sarah Taber

   Farm trade wars are wild because we've already done similar things in the past, and it did NOT work out for the US farmers in question.

   Let's talk about the trade war part of the US Civil War, one of the biggest farmer self-owns in world history.

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     Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 04:17:30 JST Sarah Taber

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     Before the war, the US South was THE global source of cotton.

     Other places grew cotton. But only the US South grew enough to ship to England & feed its Industrial Revolution textile boom.

     US planters knew this! They thought it meant the British Empire would have to join their side in the war.

     RamenCatholic 🐢 🌈 repeated this.
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     Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 01-May-2025 04:17:30 JST Sarah Taber

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     It helps explain why the Confederacy was so cocky!

     They really thought they could force the British Empire to come to their rescue & fight the North for them.

     How? By withholding their cotton, & bringing English textile manufacturing to its knees. AKA starting a trade war with the British Empire.