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The North was waging economic warfare against the South, in many forms, for many years before the Civil War, and they didn't care one smidgeon about the slavery issue. Many northern states had slavery up to and into the Civil War years.
They didn’t care about the slaves. Aside from killing about 40,000 slaves and free blacks, during the Civil War, the North proceeded to kill about half a million after the Civil War by abandoning the South to starvation after destroying their land.
I personally reject any idea of the claim that the Civil War was fought to free slaves. You don’t starve 500,000 now ex-slaves after the war if your claim was to free them.
It was all about the land and, I believe, securing a permanent floor price for cotton domestically.
“The North was waging economic warfare against the South, in many forms, for many years before the Civil War, and they didn’t care one smidgeon about the slavery issue. Many northern states had slavery up to and into the Civil War years.”
Finally! Someone got it right. The Civil War was fought over taxes, not slavery.
Good point.
...the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862 only freed slaves in areas occupied by Union forces. Slave-holding states fighting for the Union were exempted. Secretary of State William H. Steward commented: ‘We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.’
“The American Civil War was a complex conflict with many factors contributing to its outbreak. One of the issues that led to the war was the tariff policy of the United States1. In the 1850s, Congress increased the import tax from 15% to 37%, which was opposed by the South. The South believed that the tariff policy favored the North and that they were being unfairly taxed2. In 1860, 80% of all federal taxes were paid for by the South, but 95% of that money was spent on improving the North1. However, it is important to note that the Civil War was not fought solely over tariffs, but rather a combination of factors including slavery, states’ rights, and economic differences23.
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Yes they did, and here I am referring to the ones that had already claimed to have "abolished" it. This is very different from the five Union states that had slavery during and some after the Civil War.