The civil War was not about slavery. The south seceded when it realized that it would a permanent political minority.
Lincoln switched from maintaining the union as a war goal to abolishing slavery because of the appalling casualties. He needed a moral reason to justify the massive amount of deaths.
The civil War was not about slavery. The south seceded when it realized that it would a permanent political minority.
I would say that the slavery issue was a very big part of their being a political minority. I understand that they weren’t happy about tariffs protecting US (northern) industry and money being spent on roads, etc. but slavery was the biggest thing that differentiated the south from the north.
The civil War was not about slavery. The south seceded when it realized that it would a permanent political minority.Lincoln switched from maintaining the union as a war goal to abolishing slavery because of the appalling casualties. He needed a moral reason to justify the massive amount of deaths.
Exactly correct. The South had been consistently out voted in every effort to stop the North from taxing them for the benefit of the North, and they realized they would never have enough states to outvote the North.
In the 1860s, the South was paying 73-85% of all the taxes, and *MOST* of their money earned from trading with Europe was ending up in the hands of people in New York and Washington DC. (Same bastards sucking the country dry today)
The South's story has been deliberately mistold to subsequent generations to cover up the money trails leading to New York and Washington DC which are the real causes of the war.