Quote: Eric, the states didn't secede over the question of whether they have the right to secede.  In their own words, they seceded over the issue of slavery, and the perceived threat to what they considered their property, African slaves.   They said so themselves.   I showed you where they said it.  

 

Yes, they claimed they had the right to secede, but that would have never come up without the issue of slavery and the movement in the North to end slavery. 

 

The country was consumed by the issue of slavery more than it has ever been consumed by any issue before or since.  

 

I don't know where you get your history, but you have allowed yourself to be severely misled somehow. 

And you know what the most incredible thing about America is? we're the only country or society in all of human history to have gone to war over the issue of slavery. Britain, France, Spain, Russia, Mexico, Brazil, and a whole host of Latin American countries had already abolished slavery/indentured servitude by the time of our great Civil War.

 

 

Honestly, we could have a separate thread of about 200+ pages right now talking just about the Civil War and its issues. No other period in all of American history has scarred this Country more than the time of 1860-1865. It's easily the most misunderstood period in American history as well...

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