The slavery meme was what yankees had to invoke, at the behest of their oh so righteous elitist former slave runners of Boston, who were then running in the china clipper/opium trade and importing coolie labor for the westward expansion railroad. Oh, and also slaughtering the Native Americans who got in their way and creating the reservation/plantation for them to stay on and dissolve. Nice people those oligarchs.
Horace Greeley, the yankee, paid for Jefferson Davis’s legal defense and many of his post war debts. Such was the passion against slavery. Yup. Go West young man.
It is ALWAYS “rich man’s war, poor man’s fight” Name ONE that was not when reductively analyzed to causality— including WWII one could certainly say. And the American Tories still celebrate the engineered rescue of the dregs of the english empire, as well as the inheriting of the piss poor management disasters from their former colonies. Like... Iraq, or ... Iran..or....
Those Damn Yankees ran the China Opium Trade too? Wow. Thanks for the history lesson. And all the years, I was under the impression that it was the British East India Company that had a monopoly on the Opium Trade with China.
Now you tell me it was really those rascally Yankees. The stuff you can learn from you neo-confederates is amazing. < / s>
The slavery meme was invoked by the south in their pretended secession documents. They were just on the side of the institution of human slavery so that is now an embarrassment to the neo-confederates.