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

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Such a convincing argument

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It's not an argument I am going to have when some of you are know-it-all little snot nosed bitches who have been brainwashed to believe what you were taught in modern day far leftist liberal progressive revisionist history so-called institutions of higher learning.

The fricking yankees were taxing us to death and had been for fifty years. The South practically single-handedly funded the digging of the Erie Canal and that was the spark that set everything in motion that would eventually lead to the War of Northern Aggression.

Not ironically, although typical of yankee fricks then and now ... is the hypocrisy in claiming it was all about the "negro slave" when, in fact, it was the so-called "negro slave" that dug the Erie Canal and died by the hundreds (estimated over 800 black men died building Clinton's Ditch) in the process.

So Southerners were rightly pissed that they were being taxed out of their asses, while having a "slavery finger" pointed at them, all the while their tax dollars were funding the Erie Canal and black men were put under the whip digging the canal.

In the meantime very few Southeners were slave owners and many who were treated their charges with great dignity and respect. Many blacks took the names of the Southerners for whom they worked, many were taught in schools funded by their employers, and many worshiped in churches built by their employers ... AND many fought for the South.

Did some really bad shite go-on back then? Absolutely. Hell yes. Bad shite still goes on, on both sides. But was that war started over slavery ... frick no. Absolutely not. Yes, buy the time we fired on Fort Sumter it was the main streams media's mantra, especially up north ... but it was, by no means, our main point of contention down here - not according to the journals and diaries passed down in my family along, with many newspaper clippings.

What so many of you believe today is just revisionist history bullshite.

When I was a boy I had great grandparents still living who lived through the reconstruction, were children of the post war.

My last name is one of the most common last names among African Americans to this day ... Shelby Foote wrote about my family in one of his books and how the African-Americans, 500+ of them, who worked for my forefathers took the name out of honor and pride.

frick you little snot nosed prick liberal bitches. Learn to actually recognize and research the truth for yourselves ... don't fall for the bullshite in your lives. One day I pray to God y'all learn what a bunch of sheep you've all become to the politically correct bullshite.

History is what it is - it ain't perfect. Times were different. But slavery was dead before the shots were ever fired at Fort Sumter and everyone knew it.