[goodwithagun]

Does anybody else get pissed off when people claim the Civil War was not about slavery? I hated it when my liberal professors started preaching that tripe.

[AzaleaCity5691]

Then don’t come to the South because most of us are taught that. And we are taught that because it is the truth. The idea that the war was about slavery was propaganda plain and simple.

[wmfights]

Does anybody else get pissed off when people claim the Civil War was not about slavery?

Yes!

All you have to do is ask the question "would the north have fought to keep the south if the slaves had been freed?".

[Marie]

It *wasn’t* about slavery. Lincoln didn’t even make slavery an issue until after the battle of Antietam.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/miller1.html

Think about it. The southern states had left, we’d been at war for a year and a half, THEN slavery became the hot topic to keep up northern sentiment.

As far as your liberal profs go: A broken clock is right twice a day.

[fr_freak]

Does anybody else get pissed off when people claim the Civil War was not about slavery? I hated it when my liberal professors started preaching that tripe.

Yes, that annoys the hell out of me too. There seems to be two types of people who want to deny that the Civil War was about slavery: 1) left-wingers who wish to deny the USA any moral authority whatsoever, since they get so much headway using the slavery thing as a club to beat white (conservative) Americans with, and 2) Southerners who don't want to admit that the South was on the wrong side of that issue.

All one has to do to realize the truth of it is to look at all of the skirmishes before the Civil War, both political and physical, and recognize that ALL of them were about slavery. ALL OF THEM. The South may have invoked States' Rights to bolster their position, but slavery was the impetus for all of it.