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re: Do you think the Civil War was started over slavery?
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:36 pm to Stonehog
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:36 pm to Stonehog
Slavery was the primary representation of the larger issue at hand. It was the most economically relevant issue regarding the debate over state's rights.
What bugs me is that people seem to have the belief today that the north fought the war out of some noble belief that slaves should be free. Few in the north gave two shits about the slaves themselves.
What bugs me is that people seem to have the belief today that the north fought the war out of some noble belief that slaves should be free. Few in the north gave two shits about the slaves themselves.
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Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:39 pm to Roger Klarvin
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people seem to have the belief today that the north fought the war out of some noble belief that slaves should be free. Few in the north gave two shits about the slaves themselves.
I agree with this.
Equally irking are the scores of folks (usually southerners) who jump through so many mental hoops to try to convince folks that slavery really had nothing to do with the war at all.
Two preposterous positions--this is the problem when folks try to oversimplify a conflict in order to fit their particular narratives, tbh.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:41 pm to Roger Klarvin
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Few in the north gave two shits about the slaves themselves.
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Northern states, which had heavily invested in their still-nascent manufacturing, could not compete with the full-fledged industries of Europe in offering high prices for cotton imported from the South and low prices for manufactured exports in return. Thus, northern manufacturing interests supported tariffs
They cared about getting that tax money from southern planters. If the south said "ok, we will pay higher taxes on exported cotton indefinitely", I don't think the war would have happened when it did.
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:45 pm to Roger Klarvin
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What bugs me is that people seem to have the belief today that the north fought the war out of some noble belief that slaves should be free
Of course, but only people who think the civil war was only to ban slavery would think that.
This post was edited on 2/12/15 at 4:47 pm
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