I never said that, Mr. Kerry.
I said that the South's war was driven by the desire to maintain slavery. The Sectional Crises, which precipitated the Civil War, were driven by the issue of slavery. Many of the southern legislatures that wrote declarations of secession said flat-out that they were seceding because of slavery. If we grant the premise of this article, we would have to recognize that slavery (its expansion into westward lands) would have continued to be an issue, until the North defeated the South once and for all in a second war (as it certainly would have).
IF you can prove i'm wrong about my thesis, PLEASE post your PROOF. otherwise, enough of the "ad hominum" attacks.
Share-cropping persisted for several decades after the Civil War. Case closed.
the "declarations" were PRIVATE writings of a handfull of slaveowners. FEW people except the authors read the "declarations";even FEWER cared what the documents said.
the ONLY people who cared deeply about the preservation of slavery was the 5-% of persons who owned slaves.
go do some real research and you'll look SMARTER.
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