[servantboy777]

Here is a lil factoid many fail to acknowledge.

Before Lincoln was president, I believe either before or while running for a seat in congress, he among others supported the notion of recolonizing the negro back to Africa and or the Caribbean believing they would not assimilate into society.

Furthermore, Lincoln is known as the great emancipator. Well, a letter from then president Lincoln to newspaper editor Horace Greeley stated that if I could preserve the union and not free slaves...I would do it. If I could free some and not others to preserve the union...I would. (paraphrase). It is all in the national archives.

My point...slavery has been hammered over and over as being the cause of the civil war. Although abolition of slavery was indeed on many minds, it was not the sole reason for the civil war.

The South was primarily an agrarian society. The North industrialized and financial began taxing and regulating the South even to the point of placing embargos on European goods because the South began working around a controlling federal behemoth.

Slavery was (is) evil. It is part of our history. That said, at one point there were more white slaves (indentured servants) than black. Irish, Chinese slaves were here as well. So the whole notion it was just blacks enslaved was a construct of the progressives.

[kickstart]

If blacks cannot portray themselves as victims, then they lose the narrative and their money bag.

[Bull Snipe]

“even to the point of placing embargos on European goods”

What European goods would those be?

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Although abolition of slavery was indeed on many minds, it was not the sole reason for the civil war."

The war between the states was about slavery the same way that the American Revolution was about tea.