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To: bagman
"Don't kid yourself.Chamberlain is not quite what Schiara portrays him to be. He has a large problem with the truth, for instance."

Good advice for both of us, the part about not kidding ourselves. JLC didn't own any slaves at least, nor did he fight to keep them for others.

And please don't try to tell me that the war had nothing to do with slavery. It was almost all about slavery.

245 posted on 01/20/2006 5:05:43 PM PST by muir_redwoods (Free Sirhan Sirhan, after all, the bastard who killed Mary Jo Kopechne is walking around free)
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To: muir_redwoods

If the war was entirely about slavery, then why did Virginia refuse to go out until after Lincoln called for volunteers after Fort Sumter was captured? The threat to slavery hasn't changed. To credit slavery as the sole cause is to greatly simplify the matter.

As a philosophical aside, I note that in the 1930s, pertinent and respectable scholarship blamed tariff policy for the war. What was a major issue in the 30's? Smoot-Hawley, perhaps. I suggest that the "main" cause of the war reflects society's obsession at the time. Right now, in the USofA, our obsession is with race, of course.


254 posted on 01/21/2006 11:48:35 AM PST by bagman
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