[hobbes1]

Yes, and secession was designed to keep "Liberty" from
one specific race, rather than have to pay them a wage...

[stainlessbanner]

secession was designed to keep "Liberty" from one specific race

Read post 90.

[azhenfud]

Keeping Liberty from a race of people? By the same token, Lincoln nor his Northern armies did any favors to the Native American's cause for "Liberty", unless it was to "liberate" them from their lands - of course without fair compensation. Lincoln had his share into that part of history, too. They only used the slave issue as justification for their Northern Aggression and likewise, were neither a shining example of equality.

[aristeides]

I'll agree that preserving slavery was a major -- if not the sole -- reason for the South's secession in 1861. However, it was also a major reason for a lot of Americans to fight for independence in the American Revolution, especially in the Southern states. Virginia royal governor Lord Dunmore and many other leaders of the resistance to the Revolution offered freedom to slaves who fought on the British side, many slaves either so fought or at least fled behind British lines, and many American leaders, like Jefferson, regarded this British use of slaves as perhaps their most uncivilized act in the Revolutionary War.

Surely these facts do not discredit the American Revolution as a whole.