Reminds me I should put that on my resume
You always respond with some completely irrelevant nonsense. Always fishing for hypocrisy or "but the libtard didn't know THIS" like it matters.
Money and power was built from slavery and then that same money and power pushed for jim crow. If you have nothing to say about that then shush and circle jerk on your team speak.
You mean the worthless money right. Because the money was worthless -- the South issued it's own dollar and lost and it was absolutely worthless.
By early 1865, the Confederate dollar had nearly zero value, and the Southern banking system was in collapse by the war's end. Where scarce Union dollars could not be obtained, residents resorted to a barter system.
You can just read off the wikipedia page.
Railroad mileage was located mostly in rural areas; over two-thirds of the South's rails, bridges, rail yards, repair shops, and rolling stock were in areas reached by Union armies, which systematically destroyed what they could. Even in untouched areas, the lack of maintenance and repair, the absence of new equipment, the heavy over-use, and the deliberate relocation of equipment by the Confederates from remote areas to the war zone ensured the system would be ruined at war's end
Do you even realize the North federally occupied the South for two decades
By the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th century, the South was locked into a system of poverty. How much of this failure was caused by the war and by previous reliance on slavery remains the subject of debate among economists and historians
So if it worked that simply, all the figures I mentioned, the institutions, companies, business leaders, etc. became completely powerless and uninfluential after the civil war? Or perhaps they would have still had that power and influence without slavery anyway?
They just sprang out of nowhere during reconstruction I suppose.
You are literally arguing that infrastructure existed when it was completely destroyed during the Civil War.
In both the North and South, modernization and industrialization were the focus of the post-war recovery, built on the growth of cities, railroads, factories, and banks and led by Radical Republicans and former Whigs
Durrr
I am arguing that much of the people and institutions responsible for the jim crow south had their wealth, power, and influence because of slavery.
Well Wikipedia says right there that the re-industrialization and infrastructure was led by the Radical Republicans.
Yes — most of those who lobbied for and created Jim Crow laws gained their power and influence from slavery, either directly (as former enslavers or their descendants) or indirectly (through systems and institutions built during and sustained by slavery). Here's how that connection worked:
How Slavery Created the Power Base for Jim Crow:
1. Political Power from the Slave Era
- Planter elites dominated Southern politics before the Civil War and returned to power after Reconstruction.
- These elites—men like Ben Tillman (SC), James Vardaman (MS), and John Gordon (GA)—were either former slaveholders or rose through networks shaped by slavery.
- They used their wealth and connections to craft state constitutions and laws that disenfranchised Black citizens and legalized segregation.
2. Wealth from Slavery Recycled into Segregationist Institutions
- Enslavers had accumulated generational wealth from forced labor in cotton, sugar, and tobacco.
- After emancipation, even though they lost the asset of enslaved people, many retained plantations, land, and cash reserves, allowing them to fund political campaigns, newspapers, and institutions that promoted white supremacy.
- Much of this money was reinvested in systems like:
- Segregated schools
- White supremacist newspapers
- Terrorist organizations (e.g., the Ku Klux Klan, which included many former slaveholders and Confederate officers)
3. Social Hierarchy Created by Slavery Was Reinforced by Jim Crow
- Jim Crow wasn’t created in a vacuum; it was designed to preserve the racial caste system that slavery had created.
- The cultural belief in white superiority and Black subhumanity was foundational to slavery—and Jim Crow repackaged those beliefs into new laws (segregated schooling, anti-miscegenation laws, voting restrictions).
4. Post-War Recovery Strategies Were Rooted in Slavery’s Logic
- Southern elites, unable to legally own human beings, created new systems that echoed slavery:
- Sharecropping and debt peonage
- Convict leasing, which disproportionately targeted Black men through racist policing
- Vagrancy laws that criminalized unemployment and funneled Black labor into state and corporate hands
Key Takeaway:
Yes, the architects of Jim Crow derived their wealth, political power, and social standing from the slave economy.
Jim Crow was not a fresh start—it was a restoration and reconfiguration of the old racial order. It adapted the economic interests, racial ideologies, and political institutions forged in slavery into new legal and cultural forms.
Would you like to trace this legacy to specific families, companies, or how it evolved post-1960s?
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Jones isn't worth human responses
You have no idea what you're talking about. Have fun in your Google Gemini bubble.
Feel free to read the publicly available Wikipedia page dipshit.
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Lmfaoooo you are wasting your time
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Imagine not knowing how black and white generational wealth works in America, like holy shit you're American!
Nice education system we have here, glad my dad paid for mine if this is the shit you're learning (or "teaching" yourself") LOL
If there's black and white generational wealth in america how come LBJ went to Yale and Jones didn't go to college?
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