[spacecowboynj]

Here's the seed of the Civil War right here:

The Three-Fifths Compromise was a compromise between Southern and Northern states reached during the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention in which only three-fifths of the population of slaves would be counted for enumeration purposes regarding both the distribution of taxes and the apportionment of the members of the United States House of Representatives.

Slaves are counted in terms of determining who gets seats in Congress???? Holy Cow! Guess where most of the slaves were? OMG! Guess what the Civil War was? It was redistricting at the most extreme level, nothing more.

I know you guys want to believe that Lincoln and the Republican and northern industrialists who put them into power were, you know, working for Amnesty International, but sadly that was not the case.

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Holy Cow! Guess where most of the slaves were? OMG! Guess what the Civil War was? It was redistricting at the most extreme level, nothing more.

Uh, the problem with your latest crackpot theory is that, once they weren't slaves, the southern blacks would count as a full person. Southern representation would INCREASE.