Ken Burns pushed the War Between The States mythology that that war was fought over slavery. Mr. Burns, an excellent filmologist, was not correct in his history about some of that unnecessary conflict. Slavery was not the reason nor the cause of Lincoln’s war...he it to did preserve the ‘union’ but at a terrible cost....the South had asked for a relief from high Northern tariffs for years...the rest is history.
I recall discussions in both high school and university to the effect that if slavery had anything to do with Lincoln’s motives, it was to stop the blacks from escaping into the North from the Southern plantations. Northern whites were apparently getting fed up with blacks coming into their communities the way they were.
I want you to go out to the Internet and look at the various Acts of Secession that the Confederate states passed to secede from the Union. You will usually find the words "slave state" or "slavery." You pretty much won't find "tariff." In the South Carolina resolution of principles passed to explain the secession, you will find complaints about Yankee states failing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act (states' rights for me but not for thee).
Can you tell me what Abe Lincoln's position was on tariffs during the 1860 Election Campaign without looking it up? Are you telling me that South Carolina passed its secession resolution before the Electoral College even met to elect Lincoln because of tariffs???
Yes, tariffs were a sore point. But let's not be blind to what the very politicians who made the decisions wrote down!
Pointing out the economic reasons for the War of Northern Aggression will quickly get you branded a rayciss, FRiend.
If your facts are hateful, they’re hate facts!