https://economics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/banks_and_slavery_yale.pdf
Let's take a look here in a day or so re what happened when the Southern planters defaulted on their loans when Lincoln took their slaves and their land.
Americans normally get told this Whig tale about whites getting their land back from negroes to whom Sherman had given it or promised it when Lincoln had freed them suddenly.
That may not really be how it all panned out.
Why did the freed negroes not get what the North had promised?
Why did they end up as wage labor, in a system called share cropping? Who got most of the money from that, do you think?
Think about it.
You heard the story that it was all Jim Crow, and Southern whites were back happily in the saddle soon. What do you think may really have happened, and why?
Think: property rights.
Whites lost their negroes, got screwed royally, but they still had their debts, if they got their land back, to northern bankers, baby! They were called mortgages or secured transactions.
Tucker v Toomer, S. Ct. Ga., 1967
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