[P-40]

Ignorance of what, the morality of slavery?

No, the ignorance that there were more issues involved than whether or not slavery was moral, or even that it was an economic necessity. From the perspective of the South, losing a major part of their means of production encompassed every facet of life whether you sum it all up in slavery or not. The arguments from the North that we hear on this thread run along the lines of "the South was bad because they had slaves" and the ignorance of that statement is beyond belief...and is the same as the moonbat arguments over Bush, Iraq, and the WMDs.

[Heyworth]

No, the ignorance that there were more issues involved than whether or not slavery was moral, or even that it was an economic necessity.

What were they? And where, in the secession debates. editorials, declarations and speeches are they given attention in anything like the space devoted to the slavery issue?

From the perspective of the South, losing a major part of their means of production encompassed every facet of life whether you sum it all up in slavery or not.

There's another way to sum it up? What other threat was there to the southern means of production other than the ending of slavery? More importantly, though, what actual steps had been taken to abolish slavery in the south? In every speech, Lincoln says that he has no intention of interfering with slavery in the south.