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Originally Posted by kane
It wasn't just slavery. There are many who believe that the south left the Union because they were the economic center of the country and they were tired of the North leeching off of their hard work. Slavery was part of it because slavery made that economic power possible, but they made so much money with tobacco and cotton that they felt they could be richer if they didn't have to support the North.
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the Civil War wasnt over slavery, it was fought over textile industry, the mills, an cotton.
Slaves were in the mix, but anyone who thinks the civil war was about slavery has not read a real book about the war, and only recall revisionist "we won" history written in christian schoolbooks used in public schools.
the civil war was not fought over Slavery, as Lincoln said numerous times himself
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The war was fought over Southern independence, not over slavery. Lincoln said repeatedly the war was not being fought over slavery. In August 1862, over a year after the war started, Lincoln wrote an open letter to a prominent Republican abolitionist, Horace Greeley, in which he said he did not agree with those who would only “save” the Union if they could destroy slavery at the same time. Lincoln added that if he could “save” the Union without freeing a single slave, he would do so (Letter to Horace Greeley, August 22, 1862, published in the New York Tribune).
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in fact, congress passed a resolution declaring the war was not fought for slavery
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In July 1861, after the First Battle of Manassas (Bull Run) had been fought, the U.S. Congress passed a resolution, by an overwhelming majority, that declared the war was not being fought to disturb slavery, nor to subjugate the South, but only to “maintain the Union” (i.e., to force the Southern states back into the Union).
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http://www.factasy.com/civil_war/200...t_over_slavery
Lincoln declined, telling the Radicals, “We didn’t go into the war to put down slavery, but to put the flag back” (Brodie, Thaddeus Stevens, p. 155; Klingaman, Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation, pp. 75-76).
And as many have said, if the south would not have seceded slavery would have went on as if nothing happened, slavery was not the cause of Civil War.