re: Robert E. Lee has been misrepresented by regressive "historians"

The North had a lot to answer for when it came to stoking Southern passions. Northern textile mills certainly liked the cheap price of Southern cotton at below market prices, but the big landowners were definitely not suffering in any way due to it.

What the North ended up objecting to ....the straw that broke the camel's back was the Fugitive Slave Law that basically gave Southern bounty hunters free range all over the country to retrieve runaway slaves. On its face it would seem not that big a deal...helping someone retrieve stolen or missing "property". The thing was, that it forced Northerners to actually be complicit in turning over slaves or face prison time. It forced the non slave states to enforce the bondage that they objected to. It led to nullification in places like Wisconsin .

Sometimes little things make big splashes and this was one of them