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No matter who shipped the slaves, White Anglo-English aristocrats still bought and used the slaves to man their plantations, and white Anglo-Americans still went to war against the USA to preserve the institution of slavery and the ill-gotten mega-wealth it afforded a select few.
Its also true that something like 95 or even 99% of white families in the 19th century USA did not own slaves. The extreme majority of white Americans did not participate. The reason was the keeping and handling of slaves was not something that could be done without hired help to patrol them. I mean try to imagine the absurdity that Liberal media likes to paint of common families owning slaves: that somehow 1 white man, 1 white women, and their 5 children would somehow successfully control multiple strapping blacks selected for their physical power when said slaves knew where the master and his wife slept, all while out on farms that were sometimes days of walking from the nearest sheriff or cop. Its just possible. The only place slavery was remotely feasible was in the enormous plantations that would have otherwise hired farmhands by the dozens. And those were owned by the 0.01% of the South, most of them with bloodlines back to European nobility. The irony being the institution of slavery harmed nearly all white families in the South by denying them opportunities for employment, and by selling their crops at far lower prices than non-slaving farmers could afford, pushing most rural southerners into poverty and subsistence farming.
Reverse image search on tineye turn up nothing but this article, and using Duck Duck Go to search for Dontell Jackson also turns up nothing but references to this tumblr. This whole thing sounds like BS and bait. Scrub your browser history after visiting this site folks.
"No matter who shipped the slaves, White Anglo-English aristocrats still bought and used the slaves to man their plantations, and white Anglo-Americans still went to war against the USA to preserve the institution of slavery and the ill-gotten mega-wealth it afforded a select few."
Wrong. The Confederate states went to war to preserve private property rights and to stop the northern carpet baggers from rent seeking in their deals with Europe. Want to take a guess at which group from the north was doing that? It wasn't white people...
Also slavery was a dying institution and everyone knew it because of the cotton gin and other industrial advances.
The south didn't want the new northern federal system stealing its profits. They were willing to fight for it as we should be.