[Texaggie79]

Guess the authentic Union promo ads from back then asking men to join to help fight slavery were just all faked.

Course slavery wasn't the only reason, and the majority of the Yankees didn't care about freeing slaves as much as they did about how much the southern economy would suffer from freeing slaves, but freedom of slaves was a result that occured sooner because of that war.

[Nix 2]

Guess the authentic Union promo ads from back then asking men to join to help fight slavery were just all faked.

Guess the missiles clinton fired on an aspirin factory were just.....
Guess the Titanic was really unsinkable.
Guess the Great Nations were REALLY put on this earth to be slaughtered by Manifest Destiny.
Guess the Mafia doesn't really exist 'cause Hoover said so.
C'mon.

[southland]

Sooner may be an elusive term for this subject. I believe it brought another hundred years of opression. The reconstruction certainly didn't benefit the newly freed slaves. It made people quite bitter to endure this period of time then the KKK was formed. I believe economically the slave trade would have suffered had there not been a civil war then perhaps the freed men would have been better treated. This idea will never be resolved....