Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1615 Frog&fog (3)

  After the War of Independence ended, both the American people and the government were caught in a severe debt crisis.

Slavery distorted the normal classification of classes. The normal class in a capitalist society is based on the amount of production and wealth a person has, but the United States is based on the number of slaves. For slave owners in the South, slaves are both a means of production. It is also profitable capital.

The Portuguese used this model in the 18th century. The faster the slaves died, the more demand for agricultural estates. The slave ships used trade goods as collateral and used credit to make loans. Then they went to the slave market to meet. For those slave hunters, once the slaves arrived in Brazil, credit would once again become a driving force. Often agricultural estates would have a lot of debt, and plantation owners had to continue to buy slaves and produce sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc. to repay their previous loans.

  Whipping these are still trivial matters, mainly because the slave owner will not spend money to treat them after they are sick, and let them die, because the money spent to treat a slave may be more expensive than buying a new one.

  How can people not get sick? How can a person feel sick when he is strong? The mind level of a sovereign country is not based on the actual wealth of the country, but based on the country’s repayment ability, gross production value, foreign trade, and other conditions. The United Kingdom must repay the borrowed money, and the credit rating is high. The United States also spent money in the war of independence. At present, its gross production value is completely maintained by agriculture, which is the plantation owner of the South.

With the end of the War of Independence, it came to the stage of dividing property. At that time, the United States signed a "Peace Treaty" with the United Kingdom. It was a bit different from the "Paris Treaty" signed under the auspices of Louis XVI. Henry Lawrence stated in the seventh paragraph of the treaty. A ban was set up here, prohibiting the British from "carrying away any slaves or other property" after the war. This clause was proposed by the slave owners. It meant that the British should return the slaves who fled to the British territories during the war, otherwise they would have to pay compensation. The British claimed that the former slaves were free after crossing the British border.

Slave = money. The more a slave owner keeps slaves, the richer it is. Large plantation owners have huge wealth and political power. Small and medium slave owners are self-cultivating farmers. Most ordinary people who are not slave owners have an underground economic status. The group of slave owners straddled the upper and middle levels of American society. Ordinary non-slave owners would not be equal to slaves and then instigated them to rebel. They would work hard as advocated by the American spirit and strive to become slave owners.

Wealth, identity, prestige, and future prosperity are all built on the basis of slavery. The direction of social mobility is to expand wealth and improve social status through slavery. The elite, such as lawyers, teachers, doctors, and government officials, do not care about themselves. Whether to hold slaves or not, they all want to provide services to the slave-owner class. Interests drive lawyers to serve the slave owners’ property and testamentary services. Bankers provide funds for the purchase of slaves. The middle class in cities and towns join the slave-owner group camp, and even There are also priests preaching to slaves and slave owners, saying that slaves are legal.

  Compared to this group of people, speculators who resell government bonds are the black sheep.

  There is also a man named Hamilton in the United States, Alexander Hamilton. This man was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He was a military attaché to George Washington and the founder of the U.S. Central Bank, but this man was a staunch abolitionist.

There are many ways to explain Article 7 of the Peace Treaty. For example, a slave who has fled to an area controlled by the Commonwealth and became a free man, should he be caught when he returns to the United States to visit relatives, and then again Become a slave?

When he came back to visit his relatives, he not only came to visit the house, but also took away his wife and children, so that they could also obtain free status. If the free slave paid compensation to the slave owner, then he might be a little hopeful, but if it was the slave owner The lion opened his mouth, or did not give any compensation to the slave owner, and took away the slave owner’s "property" as his husband and father. Then the slave would have to incarnate as "The Freed Jiang Ge" and bring the slave owner's family away. Killed the door, and then took away his wife and children.

Otherwise, this free slave will be captured and enslaved again by the slave owner and his thugs. In 1785, New York established a "Slave Liberation Association" with the purpose of protecting those who have been freed from slavery again. Fate, the slave owners at the time were so bad that they kidnapped dark-skinned free men on the streets of New York and brought them to the slave market.

Henry Petty’s abolition of slavery was not only based on morality, and even American loans would become a problem. The United States has actually gone bankrupt. The major European securities exchanges and investors are very skeptical of the creditworthiness of the United States, and they are far below par. The price of value sells American bonds.

Because the federal treasury is empty, there is no remaining money to pay debts or establish the United States’ overseas reputation. Even if domestic creditors are patient, foreign creditors will not be like this. Hamilton believes that if the federal states cannot unite, then sooner or later domestic creditors will be too. Started to sell Treasury bonds. As for expecting the 13 states to “voluntarily” pay taxes, let alone. The American War of Independence broke out because it did not want to continue to pay taxes to the United Kingdom. The final result was that in 1786, riots broke out in Massachusetts. The indebted farmers protested the sharp increase in taxes and the cancellation of their land foreclosure.

  Massachusetts is the fief of the British king. Trade there requires the king’s license. When the "Paris Peace Treaty" was signed, the British king and his heirs gave up the power of Massachusetts.

Compared with the southern plantations, the slaves in Massachusetts are dominated by domestic slaves. Generally speaking, because of the trade blockade during the war and the excessive issuance of banknotes by the Continental Congress, the War of Independence dealt a heavy blow to the industrial and commercial New England. It didn't get better. In Puritanism, the family is the foundation of social life and the basic factor of social stability, and slaves are part of the family members, not just a protected economic investment. The mother of each family had to provide services for the family free of charge. The slave and the slave owner ate and lived together. As part of the family members, they could be taken care of when they were sick. The slaves in the central and northern regions would work with the slave owners.

This makes it easy for slave owners and slaves to have feelings in the process of getting along. Slave owners feel the same about the situation of slaves and are relatively gentle on slaves. At the same time, priests will often remind slave owners if they only pay attention to economic benefits and ignore them. Because of the inherent benefits of slaves, slavery came to an end in Massachusetts.

  This has also led to Massachusetts becoming the state with the most debt in the United States.

Xies also participated in the War of Independence and went home to farm after the war. Massachusetts was the hardest hit by the economic depression. The state’s agricultural products were severely unsold, but the state government increased taxes. Many farmers had to go to jail or mortgage themselves because they couldn’t pay the taxes. soil of.

To activate the economy, money must be input, but coins need precious metals to make. Relatively speaking, banknotes can be printed in large quantities. Farmers in Western Massachusetts put forward claims for relief payments, postponement of debt repayment, and abolition of debt imprisonment, but they were all rejected. The governor refused.

  So after the autumn harvest of 1786, Xies, who had rich experience in warfare, launched an armed rebellion. According to the method of 1776, they put hemlock branches on their hats and started the "War of Independence" within the United States.

  In 1787, the Xies uprising was quelled. At that time, the rebel army grew to 15,000, once occupied the city and destroyed the court. This uprising impacted the rule of the federal government and prompted the passage of the 1787 Constitution.

  In fact, the paper currency issued by the Continental Congress has long lost its role as a currency due to a serious depreciation. The problem is that Massachusetts does not even have paper currency. Civilized society can’t trade with Indians in the same way as when interacting with Indians.

The slave trade is not just as simple as human trafficking. Slave traders can also make money if they are willing to open trading companies to sell sugar, cotton, and tobacco provided by the planters. Slaves bought for 50 dollars in Africa can be bought for 400 dollars in the Americas. Selling, some slave owners don’t have so much cash and exchange them in kind. Cane sugar is very popular in countries without tropical colonies, and the price will rise. Generally speaking, the slave trade can make them profit from 100% to 1000%, even if it is transported. There will be "losses" on the way. As long as one of the three slave ships arrives in the Americas, they can make huge profits.

  These losses usually refer to shipwrecks and plagues. After this primitive capital accumulation process, some slave traders began to specialize. This is how the famous British steel tycoon Anthony Bacon started.

  Who doesn’t want to be a good person who is kind, cute, pure and noble?

  Georgiana really envied Lily, she could die before she knew the sins of this world.

  But she is still alive, living in the memory of Severus Snape. She is still the beautiful girl with red hair and green eyes who can use magic to make daisies bloom.

  At this moment, the door was suddenly opened silently, and a person flashed in from behind the door, and she saw the medal on his chest from a long distance away.

   "Why haven't you slept yet?" Leon asked.

   "Look at the information, Dumont gave it to me, would you like to see it?"

   "French?"

"English."

  He walked to the desk, reached out his beautiful hand and flipped through the document at random, then he pulled her up and walked towards the bed.

   "Sleep, this is an order." He said after stuffing her into the quilt.

   "What about you?" she said while lying on the bed.

   "I have to find someone who understands English and read the materials to me." After speaking, he turned and left.

  Georgiana grabbed his sleeve.

   "Lie down with me for a while, and you can leave when I fall asleep." She said softly.

  Leon easily agreed, dressed in neat clothes and hugged her across the quilt.

  "Do you want me to sing to coax you?" He teased.

   "Then I can't sleep even more." She also said with a smile, and then closed her eyes "Good night, my lion."

   "Good night, princess, have a good dream." He kissed her on the forehead, then patted her lightly, coaxing her to sleep like a child.

   Even more bizarre is that she could still fall asleep after reading such terrifying documents, and soon she fell into darkness.

  (End of this chapter)