The North invaded the Southern states because it wished to impose its will upon them.
To understand Lincoln and his puppet masters simply read his 1st inaugural address. Lincoln was the original neocon in search of perpetual war.
When the southern states seceded they told us why they were seceding. The reasons were given in various declaration of causes documents.
All you need is the ability to read those documents to understand their reasons.
A search for the word slave in this page https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states will demonstrate clearly why they were seceding.
The war’s causes and the importance of slavery among them can be debated, but this article loses much credibility by its historical inaccuracies.
The South maintained slavery because it was integral to the economic and social structure. The author seems to be implying that the South would have voluntarily rid itself of slavery except for fear of slave revolts.
The “micro civil war” that erupted in the 1850s was a result of the doctrine of popular sovereignty that was implemented in the Kansas Nebraska Act. Certainly the goal was to make slavery legal in the newly incorporated Kansas Territory, but it had no effect on Missouri, which was admitted as a slave state via the Compromise of 1820.
I’m sure there are others, but I am not wasting my time reading any more of an article by an author who cannot manage to get basic history correct
Governments do not give up their power.
I thought Lincoln once said if he could preserve the union by embracing slavery, he would. I can’t recall the source so I could be wrong-I won’t swear to it. Does anybody know?
Nimroda is the new John Kerry
Exactly! When did the “all about slavery” myth start getting pushed and by whom?
It started in Academia (no, we’re not talking about wartime propaganda) in the 80s. The people pushing it were LEFTISTS who went into Academia starting in the 60s. It took time for them to climb the ladder to professor status and then obtain tenure. By the 90s, they were department heads in Universities. They made sure to hire nothing but other LEFTISTS who would regurgitate their dogma. Sound familiar? It should. Everything else in Academia worked that way.
Every side claims every war is about morality or “the principle of the thing”. Anybody who has studied history and who has even a lick of sense quickly sees that at least 90% of the time its about one thing and one thing only.....MONEY. Politicians just don’t like to say that because its not what people want to hear. They want to believe their loved ones died for a noble cause rather than just lining others’ pockets....even though usually, they did die for that.
The Democrat slave owners wanted to keep their slaves. Lincoln, the Republican President, said we’ll go to war over this it. The Democrat slave owners stated the war to retain their slaves.
“all the slaves in Haiti rebelled, tortured, and killed everyone who was white or even 1/8 white”
And just think: one of their descendants now sits in judgement of the President of the United States, having been christened an “American” by...um...who knows.
Truly unbiased jurisprudence.
Slaves rebellions were always a possibility. But that's to be expected when people are treated as property, and slaveowners were right to be scared of a slave rebellion.
As noted in another thread:
"Of course, Federal assistance and requirements to return fugitive slaves ramped up even more slaves being given assistance to go to Canada, being hidden, and some states making return of fugitive skates as time consuming as possible.
That’s not to say that slaves should not have tried to escape, or rebel, or States should not have fought the return of fugitive slaves. Those did occur, were encouraged and should have been."
Anybody who insists it was slavery and only slavery, period, is so historically ignorant they’re not worth arguing with.
If I remember correctly, the retarded far left took us through a period of retardism when the “afro-centrists” claimed that there was absolutely no connections between African slaves and the Civil War. Whatever happened to that? Remember, the Africans used to fly around the pyramids in jets.
If I remember correctly, the retarded far left took us through a period of retardism when the “afro-centrists” claimed that there was absolutely no connections between African slaves and the Civil War. Whatever happened to that? Remember, the Africans used to fly around the pyramids in jets.
Interesting map but not detailed enough. In the state I live in Arkansas, all voted for secession except Benton and Madison Counties. The state decided they needed a 100 % secession vote so had another vote. Someone in Madison County said something disparaging about Benton County that they so infuriated them they voted pro Secession. That left Madison County against. The State decided Madison County’s vote did not count so secession was decided on.
As for what the map calls “Unorganized Territory” was the Indian Territory. They had no say in the matter but when war broke out they went with the South. the few who chose not to secede joined with John Ross, chief of the Cherokees and fled to Union Territory. All others joined with Stand Watie another Cherokee chief who became the last Confederate General to lay down his arms.
The tribes that made or were negotiating treaties with the Confederacy.
Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Comanches, Wachitas, Kiowas, Pottawattamies, Chickasaws, Osages,
Seminoles, Senecas, Shawnees, Quawpaws.
The South also had Indian agents operating all throughout the High Plains and mountain region stirring up other tribes such as the Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Navajo and Apaches to make war on the Union at that time.
Their traditional enemies, Pawnee, Kaw, Osage (well, most of them) remained loyal to the Union.
The pro-Union Osages wiped out a party of Confederate officers heading for Colorado. On them were found instructions to...
#1, encourage southerners in Colorado to join the Confederate army.....and
#2, ENCOURAGE THE INDIAN TRIBES TO ATTACK SETTLERS IN THE KANSAS-COLORADO AREA.
That party was wiped out. Who knows how many other Confederate parties made it through with the same instructions.
“There is little doubt that the recent outbreak in the Northwest (Minnesota Uprising) has resulted from the efforts of secession agents operating through Canadian Indians and fur-traders.”—Mr Giddings, US Counsul-general in Canada
...which is why Republicans have to learn how not to answer these "gotcha" questions that have no "great relevance 163 years later."
If asked what the cause of the Civil War was, simply say:
Why? Did you miss that class in high school? I'm here to talk about my vision for the country in 2024. If you want to learn about the Civil War, I suggest you watch the famous documentary by Ken Burns.-PJNext question...
A lot of people have never heard of nullification I would wager.
I would have answered:
“Sin aka Evil caused the Civil War”
Fully documented eye-opener.
The map is misleading. There was a section in the NC Appalachians that had never had slaves, and the seceded from the Confederacy as soon as the Confederacy was formed. This area was called Mayland.
Mayland was ruthless ravaged by both the US and the Confederacy. I have visited some of the caves where the people hid when soldiers came to steal and destroy.