[central_va]

Don't you get it? See what really happened is that all southerners were lazy and did not work. Only blacks worked in the antebellum South and they picked, built and did everything. They laid every brick and dug every ditch. The only excise that whites got was from swinging a whip.

The War was to protect slavery on and and had nothing to to with states rights or independence from the Northern interests. The Southerners fought to keep their slaves even if most didn't own any. The war was about slavery and only slavery. The South should be ashamed and we need to suppress and forget about that nasty War. Anyone that sees this any other way is a racist.

I learned all this from Freepers.

[rockrr]

You learned nothing. You have eyes but do not see. You have a brain but you’re loathe to use it. And stop with your projection - it’s pathetic.

[Sherman Logan]

The war was about slavery and only slavery.

I do believe that is a strawman argument. The equal and opposite of the strawman argument that the war had nothing to do with slavery.

The WBTS, as is the case with all wars, had multiple causes.

But it is quite indisputable that without slavery there would have been no war. Southern politicians and writers, before the War, were as clear as a bell on this issue. Only after the War did the notion the slavery was not a or the cause of secession become popular.