Carroll Quigley on Slavery, Demographic Limits, and Historical Conflicts

„No slave system has ever been able to continue to function on the slaves provided by its own biological reproduction because the rate of human reproduction is too slow and the expense from infant mortality and years of unproductive upkeep of the young make this prohibitively expensive. This relationship is one of the basic causes of the American Civil War, and was even more significant in destroying ancient Rome.“

Caroll QuigleyCarroll Quigley explains slavery’s demographic challenges and its role in the American Civil War and the fall of Rome.
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Caroll Quigley was an American historian and professor known for his studies on the history of societies and international relations.

Carroll Quigley explains the demographic and economic limits of slavery and its historical significance for major conflicts.


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Carroll Quigley quote about slavery, population growth, the American Civil War, and ancient Rome

Caroll Quigley (1910–1977) was an American historian, professor, and author. He taught at Georgetown University and is especially known for his work on the history of civilizations and his book "Tragedy and Hope", in which he described secret networks behind world politics.

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"Many Southern Plantation owners were working towards the day when they could convert their investment to more profitable industrial production as had been done in the North, and others felt that freemen who were paid wages would be more efficient than slaves who had no incentive to work. For the present, however, they were stuck with the system they inherited. They felt that a complete and sudden abolition of slavery with no transition period would destroy their economy and leave many of the former slaves to starve - all of which actually happened in due course." G. Edward Griffin
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"[...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics." G. Edward Griffin
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"Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." Thomas Sowell
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"A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars." Will Durant
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Leo Tolstoi quote about slavery, forced labor, and the exploitation of othersCopyright © yoice.net – Quote Artwork
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"Slavery, you know, is nothing else than the unwilling labor of many. Therefore to get rid of slavery it is necessary that people should not wish to profit by the forced labor of others and should consider it a sin and a shame. But they go and abolish the external form of slavery and arrange so that one can no longer buy and sell slaves, and they imagine and assure themselves that slavery no longer exists, and do not see or wish to see that it does, because people still want and consider it good and right to exploit the labor of others." Leo Tolstoi
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