Quote:Not to derail the thread but this sounds eerily similar to the current situation of business thriving off low wage workers. 

 

Big corporations absolutely thrive off low wages, however business can and is conducted without the minimum wages every day. In that time there was no other way to mass produce agriculture without slave labor.

 

Quote:I cannot believe how you can ignore the entire history of the period leading up to the war.  

 

What was the most popular novel of the 1850s?  Uncle Tom's Cabin

What was the most important and controversial Supreme Court decision of the 1850s?   Dredd Scott

Why did a Southern senator beat a Northern senator on the floor of the senate with a cane? 

Why did congressmen start taking guns onto the floor of the congress? 

What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?   Why did they call it "bleeding Kansas?"  

What was the grand compromise authored by Henry Clay? 

What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates? 

Who was John Brown?  Frederick Douglass? 

Why did the election of Lincoln cause the South to secede? 

 

This is all just off the top of my head.  The history of the decade leading up to the Civil War was all about the controversy over slavery.   The southern states stated in their articles of secession, which I have provided to you, that they were seceding over the issue of slavery and the threat to their way of life and their property, African slaves.  The majority of wealth in the south was the value of the African slaves.  

 

You ignore all this and say the civil war was fought over the issue of whether the states could leave the union. That's like a person filing for divorce just to prove they can do it.  Well, why did they want to leave the union in the first place?  

 

You have gone back and re-written history to fit your personal political beliefs.   That's what you've done. 

 

I don't have a dog in the fight, I have no lineage to any southern roots, heck my families from Canada and Columbia. You want to make the civil war about some noble cause but it just simply wasn't. There was good and bad on both sides, there was slave holders and anti-slavery parties in both the Union and Confederacy. Everything boiled down to one simple question, do States have the right to enter and leave the union freely or are they obligated to the union under the threat of force.

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