[Desparado]

Dear Ms. Cloud: I linked back to your original post and read your credentials. Now I'm just a simple graduate of Florida State Univ.with a BFA actually. Nothing that earth-shattering as far as heavy duty academics; but, for the life of me, I cannot understand how you could spend that much time in higher education and still think that the War between the States (Civil War) was about slavery. Lady...You need a real history class!!!!!

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

but, for the life of me, I cannot understand how you could spend that much time in higher education and still think that the War between the States (Civil War) was about slavery. Lady...You need a real history class!!!!!

While most of her post is drivel, the fact of the matter is that the Civil War was almost entirely about slavery.  And that is according to the southern viewpoint of the time too (The southern secessionist documents are quite clear on this point).  Ironically, the northern viewpoint was not abolitionist.  It was unionist (the same viewpoint which prevailed in VA until after South Carolina started the Civil War).