Sorry, but the South seceded because of slavery. As the article states , that truth was right in the secession documents. States Rights malarkey is revisionist nonsense.
The South had a right to secede for any D@mned reason they please, but it was the North that prosecuted the war.
As the article states , that truth was right in the secession documents. States Rights malarkey is revisionist nonsense.
Why was the North Fighting? Were they fighting to free the slaves? Tell me why the North was fighting. Why did the North send a 35,000 man invasion force into the South? Was it to free slaves?
If you say no, then the 22 Union states were not fighting over slavery, therefore the war was not being fought over slavery.
No, slavery as in “no you cant steal my slaves” was a secondary cause of secession.
The secessionists were the grandsons of the Founders exercising their GOD given right to separate from a tyrannical Federal government.
And the wrong side Definitely won.
Oh yeah. Now I remember. Lincoln freed all the slaves in all the states before the southern states seceded. Sarcasm. Just to be clear.
The South seceded over slavery (and tariff policy).
The North caused a war over states rights: to deny states the right to secede.
Secession was about slavery.
The war was about states rights.
***Sorry, but the South seceded because of slavery.***
But not all the slave states seceded. Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missourin Virginia broke apart, the western part stayed in the Union but still a slave state stayed in the Union. True, three were compelled to stay by Union troops there.
Slavery was still legal in these states till eight months after the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Maryland banned slavery in 1864.
Slavery would have ended with the invention of the Internal Combustion engine. Cheaper to park a tractor all winter while slaves still have to be fed, clothed and sheltered.