What an awful thread, are you guys still really parading this "Civil War wasn't about slavery" nonsense? When I was younger I thought this was some smart little historical quip- "
actually it was over states' rights and economic differences!" Then as I researched it further, spoke personally with historians knowledgeable on the period, and looked into it myself I realized, "
oh yeah.... it was just about slavery." While there may have been other factors- those other factors were largely irrecoverably linked with slavery, hence the whole states rights/10th Amendment argument in the first place.
Look up the phrase "Lost Cause" and get some scholarly material on it before repeating talking points coming out of fringe areas of the web.
Exactly- also I don't see how a single state in the CSA would be able to outlaw slavery. From my understanding of the southern economy it was basically a slave market. You were either a slave holder or someone that indirectly worked for someone owning a slave- wasn't exactly an industrial revolution going on with a plethora of factory jobs for people to get into. Outlawing slavery would be like New England voluntarily outlawing factories- just wouldn't happen. Ultimately, the Federal Government had to forcefully end slavery due to abolitionist pressure.
"BadHistory" on Reddit goes into this issue a lot and it's worth reading if you guys are interested hearing from actual historians:
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/...t_cause_is_so/
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/...hat_discusses/
https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/..._on_the_civil/
[Note: The
consensus opinion among historians is that the Civil War was mainly over slavery. There are probably more weirdo Christ-mythicists in academia than Lost Cause types]
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