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re: Do you think the Civil War was started over slavery?
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:43 pm to TbirdSpur2010
Posted on 2/12/15 at 4:43 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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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.
I agree with this as well. Slavery definitely was one of the several reasons the war took place. If it wouldn't have started in 1861, the country would have not tolerated slavery much longer anyways.
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Posted on 2/12/15 at 5:11 pm to stevengtiger
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If it wouldn't have started in 1861, the country would have not tolerated slavery much longer anyways.
Disagree. It would have led to a war eventually. Just look at how long Jim Crow laws lasted in the South. The Southern states just weren't going to up and free all the slaves and treat them as equal citizens. Plessy vs. Ferguson was in 1896, well after the Civil War and basically allowed the South to operate under a quasi slavery system well into the next century.
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