TheRealMafoo on 19 April 2010
| ImJustBayuum said: i think they are arguing about the predominant/root cause of the civil war, which was indeed slavery. But there were different reasons/motives for either upholding/abolishing slavery, predominantly economic (cotton industry, economic interests) & political (state rights, proper govt representation etc)...there were also social reasons but these were in the minority. |
The difference between what he is saying, and what I am saying, is this:
I think if at that time, they had picked something as sweeping as abolishing slavery, we would have the same result. The states that seceded were fed up with federal government take over of there rights.
ManusJustus is saying that no other issue would have caused this. That the war was over slavery alone.
I think in the next 50 years, the US might prove him wrong, as I think it will happen again, and it will have nothing to do with Slavery.
