[Kingasaurus]

"I've considered the War in this way. An abused wife, who is no angel herself, chooses to leave her abusive husband. The abusive husband, being stronger than the wife, and after inflicting grievious injury, forces her to return home to continued abuse."

Many Northerners would add the caveat that the husband forces the wife to stay in the house so he can keep her from abusing the kids, which she had been doing contunuously. Buying and selling them, even... ;)

[Aurelius]

"Many Northerners would add the caveat that the husband forces the wife to stay in the house so he can keep her from abusing the kids, which she had been doing contunuously. Buying and selling them, even... ;)"

A better analogy in this particular case would be that the husband's primary motive in forcing his wife back was to retain control over her paycheck.

[bk1000]

'Many Northerners would add the caveat that the husband forces the wife to stay in the house so he can keep her from abusing the kids, which she had been doing contunuously. Buying and selling them, even... ;) '


Don't even start. The North was just as guilty in that regard.
Using your analogy, the 'husband', if abusive, is more likely to abuse the kids than the abused 'wife'. The North would have lost greatly in tarifs and agriculture were the South to secceed. The Damn Yankees weren't as noble as you might think, nor the South as evil.

[D1X1E]

Thank you for your feedback King.
Certainly the abuse of the "children" ie: the buying and selling. SHOULD have been a motivating factor in the husband's decision to punish the wife. However, the fact that the husband's family also practiced and condoned this abuse at varying times, tends to make one question the husband's true motives.

[Colt .45]

Selling the old PC myth about the war being all about slavery eh? Please to read 'A Constitutional History of Secession' by Minnesota lawyer John Remington Graham. You would see that slavery was really a catch all issue. The war was fought over the right to secede, the tyrant Lincoln used the "Slavery" bandwagon when things weren't going so well for the Yankees in 1863. Slavery would've died out within the next 25 years if the South had of successfully seceded, or the Norhtern capitalists would've stopped interfering in Southern economic matters. Money boyo ... that was the root cause of the War of Northern Aggression.