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Slavery died in all the world without war, except in the USA. The Civil War caused so much animosity and racial problems that we still can't deal with it properly to this day. You know nothing of the sort. Your position is that had the Southern states seceded and set up a separate country, labored by slaves, we'd have been better off. Tell that to a black man. I'd rather fight 100 Civil Wars than consign another human being to slavery for even one day. You're a racist and a coward. And I'll tell you something else: Glenn Beck may have trouble counting words, but I'll take his history over yours any day. And your twisting of Abraham Lincoln is diabolical.

96 posted on 06/25/2010 7:00:14 PM PDT by IncPen (How can a man who won't produce his own documentation lecture the rest of us on immigration?)

The Civil War sped up the physical end of slavery by a few decades.

At what cost?

The concept of autonomous states, the republic died.
Segregation. KKK backlash, reconstruction.
An ever growing corrupt Federal Government, squishing states rights.

Not worth it in my opinion. A natural peaceful end would have caused no scarring.