Agree
A great many of those young boys were dirt poor …….no doubt a lot of them not unlike the ‘Boston Tea folks’ who resented being told what to do and think.
Why else would they fight for slaves they never owned or would own.
I firmly believe it was ‘states rights’…..
Thank you for this piece of history, I look forward to watching/listening.
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Some of them fought because they weren’t given an alternative.
It was much more to do with MONEY in the form of tariffs and trade policy/government subsidies to special interest groups.
The South had an export based economy and needed low tariffs to facilitate trade and to keep the cost of manufactured goods low. The North was industrializing but their factories could not compete with European factories on price due to lack of economies of scale - so they lobbied for and got high tariffs which benefitted them but crushed the Southern economy. Thus the nullification crisis of the early 1830s. They had to retreat from the high tariffs but a generation later when the demographics were more in their favor, they were back to get those sky high tariffs again.
The South had seen this before and decided they were not going to stick around to be the North’s cash cow. Lincoln could not afford to let the North’s cash cow leave. There’s secession and the war in a nutshell. Slavery was just a bargaining chip - for both sides.
Same same 'elites' we have today who risk World War III so their whore-monger drug addicted sons can earn $60,000 a month in foreign hellholes (while not showing up for work) also existed in other times.
Soldiers are lied to in most wars. Young southerns were fighting for a 'way of life' they didn't benefit from... It's why in a free county Congress is suppose to 'weight in' on wars. They're suppose to represent us - the people. Have you noticed how DC has poo-pooed that little detail? They want us to die for THEM - for 'elites' who feed of the rest of us.
So ask yourself...
Do YOU want to die for Hunter Biden's excess? And the excess of his sniffer father and the rest of the indulgent filth in DC living off the work and sweat of the American people?? Well, not to worry - they'll tell you a different story - one about your need to defend your home, your community your loved ones. And sometimes that story is true and we need to stand together - and sometimes it's a lie...