bedstuy
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« on: July 16, 2014, 06:52:21 PM » |
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The logic of these Confederate apologists is so deliciously stupid. Essentially, it's the war didn't start because of slavery, it started because the North wanted to keep the Southern states in the Union.
Fine, that sort of makes sense from the historical perspective of after the South had succeeded in 1860. But, that's basically taking an arbitrary point in history and pretending that nothing preceded 1860. That's like saying trying to carjack someone and saying you got in a fight because they wouldn't let you drive their car away. What was going on before 1860? The Missouri Compromise, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Dred Scott case, the international abolitionist movement gaining steam, the list goes on. The South was desperately trying to preserve slavery at every opportunity. The North wasn't 100% abolitionist and it certainly wasn't willing to start a war over abolition yet, obviously. But, the reason the South succeeded was slavery and succession was the key proximate cause of the war.
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