‘Ultimately, more than 750,000 men died in the conflict that would finally end the wicked institution of slavery in America once and for all.’
Therefore, the Civil War was fought over Slavery?
If modern America is built on anything, it is the Civil War in which the South’s slave based agrarian society was destroyed, and resulted in the North’s industrial age. The Southern states were practically erased during the decades long military occupation that followed.
Prior to the civil war, the only thing “built on slavery” was the Southern agrarian economy, which actually caused the South to lag behind.
America wasn’t built on slavery and the vestiges of slavery were leveled to the ground. America today is built on the North’s war to eradicate slavery, the resulting industrial revolution, mass European immigration, and World Wars I and II.