re: New Civil War Movie: Field of Lost Shoes (2014)

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Obviously Slavery is horrible, but a lot of the other issues the South had with being in the union were fair points. I would like to see more civil war stuff with that perspective.

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Without slavery there wouldn't have been a Civil War. Obviously the war itself wasn't fought over the issue of slavery (at least not at first), but the southern states seceded because of the issue of slavery. Anyone who disagrees with that is living under a rock. What was the #1 issue throughout the decade of the 1850s, leading all the way up to the Election of 1860? Slavery.

People were killing each other over slavery in Kansas throughout the mid-1850s. You had congressmen beating each other to the point of death over the issue of slavery on the floor of the Senate. You even had an attempted slave insurrection led by John Brown in 1859 that received a lot of press and a lot of passion for one side or the other, depending on where in the country you were from.

Secession would never have been possible without slavery. That was the central issue that southerners had with their northern brethren.

750,000 men didn't die over four years over a dispute arising from tariffs. That's Lost Cause, revisionist history.