Laz, with all due respect because you aren’t profanely strident as some others here but the South went to war to preserve slavery. If it had won the war it would have extended slavery to every state in the nation as it had wanted to do in Kansas before the war started. In fact ‘’Bleeding Kansas’ was really where the war started in the first place.
No it did not and your BS needs to stop.
It was trade and specifically control of the Mississippi river.
And the North did not go to war to stop it. That's just the propaganda that some rubes are still repeating. They went to war to make sure that if *THEY* couldn't get that slave money, nobody was going to get that slave money.
And that's the plain truth.
Much of the abolitionist support in the north was from workers who didn't like the idea of working for wages in competition with non-paid slaves. It was more of a labor issue to them than it was a give-a-d@mn about the slaves.
Hey! No need to get insulting! I'm just as profanely strident as anyone!!!
but the South went to war to preserve slavery.
I agree, but only in part. The second and equally-important part is that they didn't want to be bossed around by the North. I guess we call it States Rights, but it boils down to not wanting to be told what to do.
And the funny thing is, slavery would have been obsolete very quickly anyways. A machine is lot more economical than a human slave.
There also seem to be a bunch of other more minor reasons, but the two I stated, you should agree with... if you are being as honest with yourself as I am with myself.