(11-02-2018, 12:04 PM)Byron LeftTown Wrote:

(11-02-2018, 11:56 AM)mikesez Wrote: The Northern whites did an excellent thing.  They defeated bad, oppressive men, the Southern whites.  That's all that needs to be said about it.

Nice try but no.  The slave-owning Northerners fought because the President declared war.  The Southern states had filed for divorce and Lincoln said Nobody Divorces Me [BLEEP]!!

It's like people don't even pay attention when reading American history.

The civil war was much less about slavery and much more about the Southern states RIGHT to secede from the Union.
And the Union decided that even though secession was legal and within the rights of those states, they would wage war to prevent it.
Why?
Cash crops like tobacco and cotton of course.

Like with many wars, the war which is basically taught as nice whites and saved blacks vs bad whites and slaves, was actually about money and power.
Not about people.
Oh an Lincoln wasn't exactly a savior of the black peoples either. He tried to get many of them to leave. Some to other colonization efforts in the Caribbean and Liberia.

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