[SauronOfMordor]

Much of the reason for secession was over tariffs, which affected everyone there, not slavery.

The South exported their cotton to England, and wanted British manufactured goods in return.

Fort Sumter was fired upon, because its main purpose was enforcement of tariff collection on ships entering Charleston harbor.

https://mises.org/library/lincolns-tariff-war

[DoodleDawg]

The South exported their cotton to England, and wanted British manufactured goods in return.

Like what?

Fort Sumter was fired upon, because its main purpose was enforcement of tariff collection on ships entering Charleston harbor.

Fort Sumter was fired on because it was federal property manned by federal troops who refused to allow the Confederacy to just seize it. It was not a there to enforce tariff collections. That was done at the Customs House on Bay Street.

[Pikachu_Dad]

roflol... WRONG.

Ludicrously wrong !!!

[SoCal Pubbie]

No, the main purpose of Fort Sumter was NOT enforcement of tariff collection on ships entering Charleston harbor. It was a military fort, not a tax collection facility. The Charleston harbor was too shallow for the larger and deeper draft vessels of the day, and the port had fallen into decline twenty years before secession. This falsehood is another tenet of Neo-Confederate mythology.