Ask yourself what was going on in the south?
You had landowners running cotton fields where they were exploiting workers to the point of slavery
What did you have in Europe throughout the centuries? There was fuedalism where the landowners exploited the workers to the point of slavery ('serfdom')
The big landowners in europe were the vatican, the royal families (who all intermarried with each other) and the aristocracy (who also intermarried and supplied the royal stock)
These groups all worked together to maintain a social strata with the workers at the bottom tilling the fields as uneducated 'peasants'
As trade increased financial complexity increased. Christians and muslims were NOT allowed to charge interests on loans (this is called 'usury'). the only people who were not stopped by their religion from charging interest on loans were jews. This is not a racist comment against jews its simply historical fact
This is why each european royal family would have a jewish quarter in their city where they housed the jewish money changers. These money lenders lent loans to the royals of europe and to the aristocracy often in the shape of war loans to fight the many territorial disputes in european history.
Through this process of charging interest the jewish money changers became very wealthy and in the case of the rothschilds became knighted by the british royal family and accepted into the aristocracy...they all merged
The vatican too has a bank...all these groups have been controlling the land, the trade, the resources and the banking of europe for centuries
They did not turn a blind eye when the american colonies were started. They like everyone else saw the new lands as a business opportunity. They saw a vast land full of resources to be exploited whether it was land, oil, trees, furs, meat whatever and they took the land violently from the inhabitants
This network of royals, aristocracy, the vatican and the jewish bankers were all behind the slave trade. They had a triangular trade going with their cargo ships where they would sail european goods to africa to trade for slaves which they would take to the americas to be used to grow cash crops which would be taken back to Europe
Through this process the bankers and merchants grew massively wealthy and this is why countries like britain have so many grand stone buildings form this period....they are largely built off the blood and sweat of slavery
The jewish central bankers were HEAVILY involved in the slave trade at this time. The trade was protected by the crown
The network maintained their social cohesion through freemasonry which all the royals, bankers and aristocracy joined so that they could rub shoulders under one organisation and maintain their cohesion as a social and political force (you were either in the club or you weren't. If you weren't really in the club but you jopined the lodge then you weren't allowed into the prestigious lodges where the landed and monied people would meet)
The freemasons are a solar cult. They see the male penis as the microcosm of the macrocosmic sun. This is because they see man as a miniture of the universe (man was made in gods image etc). This is why women are not allowed into freemasonry...because they don't have a penis. This is why masons wear a cloth (an 'apron') over their penis because it is the holy of holies. freemasonry is a pyramidal hierarchical structure with the royals at the top of the pyramid. It aims to uphold the social structure of our society
In europe the social structure was the royals at the top then the aristocracy, then the priesthood, then the bankers and merchants, then the serfs (the wider public)
In the americas the social structure was the same. Old money exerted its influence in the americas through agents like J.P.Morgan and the Rockefellers
if you look at the catholic church, they too are a male only order who worship the sun which they veil behind the worship of jesus. They too are a solar, phallic cult and are asked to be celibate. This is why no women are allowed to be priests...because they don't have a penis
Regardless of any seeming hostility at the grass roots level between groups like the KKK and the catholic church at the top of each of those pyramids they converge...they are both on the same side. They want to maintain a social structure with the landowning class at the top exploiting the rest of humanity and stopping them from becoming educated and free