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Originally Posted by anothersteve
"What led to the outbreak of the bloodiest conflict in the history of North America?
A common explanation is that the Civil War was fought over the MORAL issue of slavery.
In fact, it was the ECONOMICS of slavery and POLITICAL CONTROL of that system that was CENTRAL to the conflict.
A key issue was STATE'S RIGHTS."
Causes Of The Civil War | History Detectives | PBS
I never said slavery wasn't an issue, it started with States rights, and slavery was part of the rights southern states were fighting for. A technicality for sure, but gets overlooked and ignored.
I can post link after link that says the same as above. I think I did that when this subject came up months ago.
I'm not going to get into this again.
Steve |
While you were picking & choosing portions of that PBS page to quote (and adding YOUR OWN emphasis), you seem to have skipped this: "
The Southern states wanted to assert their authority over the federal government so they could abolish federal laws they didn't support, especially laws interfering with the South's right to keep slaves and take them wherever they wished." (emphasis added
)
I'm quite sure you can find plenty of links to people that share your opinion; once again I'll post a link to the actual declarations of cessation from the 5 original Confederate states:
The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States | American Battlefield Trust Read it in their own words, not the opinions on
anyone else. If you don't want to read it all, I can tell you that 'slave' in various forms appears 83 times, 'right' appears 37 times and largely as a right to keep slaves.