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When do you think people will read history and realize the Civil War was started over taxes and not slavery? The Emancipation Proclamation was made in attempt to cripple the South's war time economy. The border states that stayed loyal to the union were exempt from the proclamation.

Oh I forgot, the Ken Burns' version of history clearly states it was a war about slavery.

It was taxes on exports that caused the war. The South was predominant exporter. The North had inferior goods (no export). The South would buy superior goods from England, which caused much pain to the northern industries. "For the contest on the part of the North is now undisguisedly for empire. The question of Slavery is thrown to the winds. This is hardly any concession in its favor that the South could ask which the North would refuse, provided only that the seceding States would re-enter the Union.... Away with the pretense on the North to dignify its cause with the name of freedom to the slave!" --British Periodical 1862

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It was taxes on exports that caused the war.

LOL. What don't you show us some documentation on the export tax. When was it passed? What was the rate?

I think you had better read some history instead of whatever myths you have been getting duped by. There was never a tax on exports and if you don't think the slavery issue was the root cause of the war, you would have to call all the Southern leaders who pushed for secession liars when they said it was about slavery.