The seceding States cited slavery as the principle reason for wanting to leave the Union.
The South Carolina Declaration of Secession indicated that slavery was the reason.
The southern states seceded, organized their own government, and forced the surrender of Fort Sumter. That’s what precipitated the war. The war was fought first to preserve the Union. But the war did settle the issue of slavery within the Union.
Someone should have told the Southern leaders of the time. They thought it was about slavery.
You’re spewing revisionist history. The secessionist politicians made it quite clear it was all about slavery when they voted to secede. Just read their speeches. It had been tearing the nation apart for decades before the war. When Lincoln was elected the slave owning Democrat elites who ran the south had a hysterical overreaction much like today’s Democrats had when Trump was elected. They succeeded before he was even sworn in.
I agree. Slavery was used in New York to help get people to fight. The war - as always - was about money. The North (US) could not continue without the funds raised by the South through tariffs. It really was that simple.
Don’t tell Keff Davis and his boys that. Their declaration specifically states that the secession was about slavery
The 1861-65 Civil War between the northern and southern states was principally caused by slavery.
No, slavery had nothing to do with the war until it was nearly over.
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Yep, I caught that right away. The revision of that historical record is now cast in stone, and it wouldn’t surprise me to hear in the news one day that the refutation of it has been codified as a HATE CRIME!
Don’t confuse them the facts