I get that.
But I don’t think that any southern states would have left the Union if they were not challenged over keeping slaves.
That’s what I mean.
“But I don’t think that any southern states would have left the Union if they were not challenged over keeping slaves.”
When were they challenged? BY whom and under what force?
That one I accept. It’s a pet peeve of mine. Our wonderful public education system no long teaches facts and too many people are ignorant of the facts. Most people actually believe that Lincoln and the remaining Union declared war on the Confederacy with a declared goal to free slaves. Simply not true. It kills them to find out that their whole view of war is false.
As you correctly allude, people can argue that slavery was the cause of the war, but they can’t say that the war started with the intent of freeing slaves. Two totally different concepts. I mean, who are they going to believe, their public school teachers or Lincoln’s own words.