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What the people missed was their personal freedoms that had just been won in the Revolution.
Except for those folks who didn't have any personal freedoms because they were owned by the people to whom you are referring?

Speaking for myself, I'm tired of most rational discussions of the War Between the States being filled with innuendo that to question the popular historical story is akin to promoting or endorsing slavery.

My personal research into this subject has convinced me that the South certainly had no illusions that slavery wasn't a dying institution and they certainly weren't fighting to preserve it per se. Lincoln's words indicated he wasn't intent on abolishing slavery, at least at the beginning of the war. There's documentation that slavery existed in the North and certainly in the West and that the Emancipation Proclamation did nothing for those slaves. There is documentation that riots in NYC broke out to prevent Union troops being sent to the South.

Lets see some documented facts, from the period just before the war or at its immediate start that bolsters any contention that the war was caused solely, or even mostly, to end slavery.

Why is the "slavery card" always pulled out instead of some cold hard facts?

"Except for those folks who didn't have any personal freedoms because they were owned by the people to whom you are referring?"

The north wasn't as economically dependent on slavery as the South but was just as supportive of it. In fact Massachusetts was the last state to do away with slavery.

If slavery has been the real issue all the northern states would have been slave free well before the end of the War of Northern Aggression BUT THEY WEREN'T.

It was and emotional bit of propaganda to hide Lincoln Monarchical aims.

Except for those folks who didn't have any personal freedoms because they were owned by the people to whom you are referring?

And what have you missed lil jimmy? For one, the slaves were auctioned off on Wall Street to be sent south. Slave trade is at the root of today's so called Wall Street. So what say ye now?