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What do you know about the causes for the Civil War beside the fact that it was about slavery? Before we go ripping up every confederate monument and statue and ban everything and anything about the Confederacy from our vocabulary, let's make sure we have all the facts.
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/07/15/historical-ignorance-n2024814
http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2015/07/15/historical-ignorance-n2024814
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A lot. While an interesting article, it is factually deficient. I would expect more from the writer but calling our Civil War, the War of 1861, kind of sets the tone for everything after.
IF no one in the North, thought it worth going to war, the War of 1861 would never have happened.
IF slavery was not an issue, the Southern states would never have left the Union.
Yes, the winners write the history, but revisionist then get to rewrite is centuries later to try to support their points of view.
IF no one in the North, thought it worth going to war, the War of 1861 would never have happened.
IF slavery was not an issue, the Southern states would never have left the Union.
Yes, the winners write the history, but revisionist then get to rewrite is centuries later to try to support their points of view.
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Yes Sir. Especially those black Confederate soldiers...of course there were some who did own slaves but that is another thing that most people studying the history of the period somehow overlook?
Yes Sir. Especially those black Confederate soldiers...of course there were some who did own slaves but that is another thing that most people studying the history of the period somehow overlook?
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The Civil War was mainly about states' rights. Owning slaves happened to be one of the rights states wanted to keep at the state level as opposed to a federal law prohibiting slave ownership outright. The southern economy needed slaves to keep the cost of cotton down - not that this was right, but it's what their economy was based on. If this sounds vaguely familiar like why companies are shipping jobs overseas in and bringing in Visa workers so they can pay them less, then its no coincidence. This is the primary reason why southern states started to secede from the union despite an attempt to pass laws against it. As the great Robert E. Lee proclaimed, he could not turn his hand against his home state of Virginia despite the fact he felt slavery was inherently wrong.
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Thank you, Major. It was all about States' rights. Copious documents between the South Carolina state legislature and Washington, during the years 1859 and 1860, solidly prove that point. Slavery was not mentioned. It does not take a First Grader to know, however, that slavery was probably the biggest single ticket item on the list of individual issues that South Carolina (the first state to secede) had in mind during those back and forth dialogues. But the principal issue was States' Rights, the opinion of every seceding state, that the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was being grossly violated in favor and to the advantage of the North.
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