The Moral Tariff

Pro southern business interests and journalists fed the myth that the war was over trade, not slavery. The better to win over people who might be appalled at siding with slave owners against the forces of abolition. But en john stuart mill, the fugking story of this podcast, got involved and started writing essays about how this is nonsense. And alexs a, being beholden to this myth really indicates that either he hasn't researched it as much as he thinks or he's inclined to just believe the slavery apologist argument.