re: Do you think the Civil War was started over slavery?

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Some of it was sold to Europe. Much of it went due North.

Where do think the Northern textile factories got their cotton?

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No, he's right. The majority of the South's cotton went to England. And this was part of the problem. Because Southern cotton that went into New York out of the Gulf and out of Savannah and Charleston, was under heavy import tariffs ... which is why the South didn't want to do business with the North. It was actually cheaper for northern textile mills to buy Southern cotton through European suppliers than it was to buy it directly from the South because of Clinton's tariff on Southern cotton in the early 19th century. And it wasn't just Southern cotton, is was many other things grown down here. And it was never under the guise of a slavery tariff ... it was always about funding a northern project, like the Erie canal, at the expense of Southern farmers.