{"id":2159,"date":"2014-12-26T14:39:28","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2014-12-26T14:39:28","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T18:39:28","slug":"the-new-abolitionism-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/26\/the-new-abolitionism-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Abolitionism | The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to calculations made by economic historian Gavin Wright, slaves represented nearly half the total wealth of the South on the eve of secession. \u201cIn 1860, slaves as property were worth more than all the banks, factories and railroads in the country put together,\u201d civil war historian Eric Foner tells me. \u201cThink what would happen if you liquidated the banks, factories and railroads with no compensation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/179461\/new-abolitionism?page=0%2C0#'>The New Abolitionism | The Nation<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to calculations made by economic historian Gavin Wright, slaves represented nearly half the total wealth of the South on the eve of secession. \u201cIn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[22,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}