Never said that the Civil War was all about slavery. The question was if there had been no slavery from the beginning of America, would there have been a Civil War?
My guess is that without slavery, the wealth and disparity between the North and South would not have developed in the same manner. Would there have been the wealth and the will to execute a decoupling from England through revolution. IDK but my guess is it would have been quite different.
“Never said that the Civil War was all about slavery.”
You are right; you didn’t say that.
The way I phrased my response implied you did, or might have.
I should have made it clear that others have said “it was all about slavery.”
It seems like you have said “if it hadn’t have been for slavery there would have been no war.”
It is a complicated thing. Of the 13 original states, 13 of them were slave states. But of that number, only 13 of them voted to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution.
I am not totally convinced that the Union slave state of Maryland sent troops to fight in the slave state of Virginia to free the slaves.
Or that the Union slave state of Delaware sent troops to fight in the slave state of North Carolina to free the slaves.
Or that the Union slave state of Kentucky sent troops to fight in the slave state of Tennessee to free the slaves. And so forth and so on.
Jefferson Davis once took an oath to defend and protect the pro-slavery CSA Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln took an oath - twice - to defend and protect the pro-slavery United States Constitution.