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ImJustBayuum on 19 April 2010
TheRealMafoo said:
ImJustBayuum said:

Slavery was the last straw, right. So slavery burst the bubble of accumulated problems, that drove america to civil war. So technically speaking, slavery was the cause of this specific civil war. But this is from a face-value perspective, if you look at a it holistically, than of course youre going to find deeper reasons/motives than what is presented at face value (slavery). I guess it all depends on how you view the issue.

Slavery was not outlawed, until 1865, and the 14th amendment. A year after the civil war was over.

So Slavery was not the cause of the war, as it was legal all the way up to, and through the war. The way slavery could factor into it, was the south might of been worried the the Union one day would outlaw it, and chose to not live under a government with that much power over them, but there was no law on slavery that forced there hand.

Slavery doesnt have to end when the war ended to consider it the issue that cause the war. The result of the war can happen within a relevant time after the war. Put it this way,  the civil war effectively (within a relevant time period) ended slavery. Like i said before, it all depends on ones perspective.

Personally, I think that southerners tried to hide behind 'state rights' to protect their slavery interests (which is predominantly economic).

 

 



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bdbdbd on 20 April 2010

@ImJustBayuum: Yes, it was the face value - which is why i mentioned it in the first place.

We can say the civil war was because of cotton, just aswell as say it was because of the slaves.

Naturally slavery was made illegal after the war - if you say you're fighting to get rid of the slavery, you better do something to it for yourself if you want to remain credible.

Naturally, there isn't just one reason for the war and slavery being just one of them. The point is, that in the union, south saw itself producing goods for the north to take advantage of them, with little gains for itself.



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