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Originally posted by CDSmith
And it doesn't matter if only a few hundred thousand folks owned slaves. The fact is that a few milliion U.S. citizens in the huge region known as the "South" were willing to fight to defend the institution of slavery. An area that is bigger and was more populace than many entire countries at the time.
Your "small" argument holds no water Lab, because it was by no means a small issue in the U.S. like it was in Canada.
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The civil war wasnt over slavery despite what alot of people would like to think.
In the mid 1800s cotton was the export that accounted for over half the GDP at the time. The South saw the North getting more influence in Washington (because they had more people... more voters) and they knew in a matter of time that the North would dictate the laws of the South. THATS why they wanted to leave the Union.
Leave the Union? They would have taken over half the countries wealth with them.
The Civil War was not over slavery. Thats bullshit. The North used it as an excuse... and not even a very good one.