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The Civil War wasn't about slavery, it was about states' rights*!

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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    Blackie said:

    semantics, but the war wasn't about slavery - it was about preventing secession; the northern aggressors self-servingly (e.g. Mississippi River accessibility) thwarted the southern states' constitutionally-granted efforts to secede (regardless of the south's motivations). The winners get to write the history books though, and thus were able to spin things to be all about saving the blacks.

    I'm with you on this, the northern side wasn't about slavery. The southern side was though.

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  • CuntWaffle
    CuntWaffle Member Posts: 22,500
    Blackie said:

    semantics, but the war wasn't about slavery - it was about preventing secession; the northern aggressors self-servingly (e.g. Mississippi River accessibility) thwarted the southern states' constitutionally-granted efforts to secede (regardless of the south's motivations). The winners get to write the history books though, and thus were able to spin things to be all about saving the blacks.

    Always about the blacks?
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    dnc said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    dnc said:

    Blackie said:

    semantics, but the war wasn't about slavery - it was about preventing secession; the northern aggressors self-servingly (e.g. Mississippi River accessibility) thwarted the southern states' constitutionally-granted efforts to secede (regardless of the south's motivations). The winners get to write the history books though, and thus were able to spin things to be all about saving the blacks.

    I'm with you on this, the northern side wasn't about slavery. The southern side was though.

    If you told the average Union soldier he was fighting to free slaves, he'd have smashed your face in.
    The Union was made up of TUFF liberals?
    From logging camps
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    CuntWaffle said:

    Blackie said:

    semantics, but the war wasn't about slavery - it was about preventing secession; the northern aggressors self-servingly (e.g. Mississippi River accessibility) thwarted the southern states' constitutionally-granted efforts to secede (regardless of the south's motivations). The winners get to write the history books though, and thus were able to spin things to be all about saving the blacks.

    Always about the blackies?
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  • puppylove_sugarsteel
    puppylove_sugarsteel Member Posts: 9,133
    RaceBannon said:

    The science was settled on white superiority

    As well as it should.
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  • Southerndawg
    Southerndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,363 Founders Club
    ThomasFremont said:

    dnc said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    dnc said:

    Blackie said:

    semantics, but the war wasn't about slavery - it was about preventing secession; the northern aggressors self-servingly (e.g. Mississippi River accessibility) thwarted the southern states' constitutionally-granted efforts to secede (regardless of the south's motivations). The winners get to write the history books though, and thus were able to spin things to be all about saving the blacks.

    I'm with you on this, the northern side wasn't about slavery. The southern side was though.

    If you told the average Union soldier he was fighting to free slaves, he'd have smashed your face in.
    The Union was made up of TUFF liberals?
    From logging camps Ireland
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