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To: taraytarah
Interesting, but nonsense.

The South decide to exit the union because the north decided to stop the institution of slavery from spreading into the territories that had not yet been set up as states.

Slavery was on a slow road to extinction, but the South refused to peacefully comply with that destiny.

To say the Civil war was not about the destruction of Slavery in America is naive at best. If there had not been slavery in the south, the Southern rebellion never would have occurred. Period.

42 posted on 02/13/2009 9:49:01 AM PST by PA-RIVER
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To: PA-RIVER

“If there had not been slavery in the south, the Southern rebellion never would have occurred. Period.”

There would not even have been a region identifying itself as “the South.” There would simply have been States who are in the Southern United States.


50 posted on 02/13/2009 9:59:52 AM PST by yazoo
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To: PA-RIVER

You’ve been indoctrinated by the history books or text books written after the 50’s.

Go hunt up a school textbook or a history book written in the late 19th or early 20th Century and you’ll come away better educated.

Until then, take our word for it. The War of Northern Aggression was not about slavery.

Re-read this article a bit more closely.


59 posted on 02/13/2009 10:30:40 AM PST by HighlyOpinionated ( "The goal is not to solve the problem, but to escalate it . . . ." - Saul Alinsky)
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