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The only folks who ever bought slaves were those with large 'Wal-mart' type operations...farms of such size, that required a massive amount of manpower to keep them running. When you look at the population of Alabama in 1850, you will find that almost 95 percent of the white male population over the age of 21....never owned a slave. This really tells a big part of the story....because it repeats in almost every southern state. Why would non-slave owners go to war over rich slave-owners? Because this was only a fraction of the entire problem at hand. The vast audience in America today fails to grasp that there were massive differences between southerners and northerners. Lincoln had already figured out how the electoral college would help him win in the mid-1850s and devised a strategy to totally lock out southerners in the 1860 election. When you look at the future of the south on the day after the election....it was all downhill. A Republican president would be sitting in the White House for the next 20 years and they would eventually set all slaves free with no compensation for slave-owners. We all need to sit down and reread the whole chapter in American history, but this time...skip Uncle Tom's Cabin and the movie Roots....get some real history books and understand America in 1850.

A Republican president would be sitting in the White House for the next 20 years and they would eventually set all slaves free with no compensation for slave-owners.

Cry me a river for the poor oppressed slave owners. Why should they have expected even one penny for the life and liberty of another human being? They deserve to have been shot on sight.

The Civil War was totally justified, even Sherman's march to the sea, and apologists for the Old South are apologists for slavery. Their nostalgia for an evil and inferior culture sickens me.

-ccm

Why would non-slave owners go to war over rich slave-owners?

Well, to be blunt, because they didn't want millions of free blacks voting, competing for jobs, living where they wanted, things like that. They were fighting to keep blacks as slaves and to maintain their own place in society.