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Scott Lowther wrote:
and the (erroneous) belief that the social system of the CSA was closer to
that of Europe.

Why "erroneous"? The US worked to be un-European. The CSA worked to
retain its Euopean-ness, aristocracy and all.

There was very little European about the way the CSA worked, if you look
closely; the resemblance was superficial. Both had a strong class
structure, but the two structures weren't at all similar. Notably, in
Europe, the nobility had ties to the peasants as well as vice-versa.

The way Southern aristocrats treated their slaves was much closer to the
way Northern factory owners treated their machinery -- e.g., buying and
selling it whenever convenient -- than to the way European aristocrats
(usually) treated their vassals.
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