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The Civil War, How Might It Have Been Avoided?
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:27 pm
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:27 pm
Many discussions about how and why it happened, but I wonder if it was possible to have avoided it?
Nobody else ever fought a war over slavery though many countries got rid of it throughout the 1800's. America's population in 1860 was about 31 million and by 1865 about 640,000 died in the fighting.
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Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:28 pm to Auburn1968
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Nobody else ever fought a war over slavery though many countries got rid of it throughout the 1800's.
Almost like there were other factors.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:38 pm to The Boat
What other laws were enacted after the Civil War to address those other unsettled factors?
As far as I see, it was mostly freed man and discrimination laws
As far as I see, it was mostly freed man and discrimination laws
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:38 pm to Auburn1968
founders actually dealing with slavery would have helped but never would have been ratified
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:39 pm to Auburn1968
If the north would have stopped the high tarriffs
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:40 pm to Auburn1968
Just let us have those damned forts.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:40 pm to Auburn1968
You think it was that simple? There were slaves in the south US and north US was like "you better get rid of those slaves or else" and the south was like "or else what" and the north was like "or else you better be ready to go to war".. The south called their bluff and then the war started
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:41 pm to Auburn1968
A crystal ball.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:43 pm to Auburn1968
Define “never”. The Romans, Greeks, Persians, and Mongols enslaved large numbers of people including nearly 70% of the population of Rome weren’t Roman citizens as were several Greek city/states. They would routinely attack weaker regions for sources of labor and resources.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:50 pm to RelicBatches86
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What other laws were enacted after the Civil War to address those other unsettled factors?
Tariffs on Southern imports were jacked up further as soon as the South walked out of Congress and after the war.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:51 pm to Auburn1968
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The Civil War, How Might It Have Been Avoided?
If the North would have simply said, "adios mother frickers."
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:55 pm to Rip Torner
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Define “never”. The Romans, Greeks, Persians, and Mongols enslaved large numbers of people including nearly 70% of the population of Rome weren’t Roman citizens as were several Greek city/states. They would routinely attack weaker regions for sources of labor and resources.
That's the opposite of all of the context. Many cultures fought wars to enslave others, but no others fought a war to end slavery. Haiti might be an exception to that.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:56 pm to Auburn1968
Better question is what might have been if Lincoln had NOT been murdered. He believed in reconciliation and not radical reconstruction.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:57 pm to Auburn1968
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That's the opposite of all of the context. Many cultures fought wars to enslave others, but no others fought a war to end slavery. Haiti might be an exception to that.
We didn’t fight a war to end slavery, they fought a war to preserve the Union and keep from losing what the South brought to it. It was the end of the state being the primary organization of citizens and the supremacy of the federal government. The 10th amendment was rendered null and void.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:57 pm to ThatTahoeOverThere
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If the north would have stopped the high tarriffs
Posted on 6/2/26 at 6:59 pm to Auburn1968
quote:hang all european bankers
How Might It Have Been Avoided?
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:07 pm to Auburn1968
Was there not some issue concerning the economic power of the agricultural South versus the economic power of the emerging industrial North and the voting balance in Congress as new states were admitted to the Union - would each new state be Slave or Free?
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:08 pm to Auburn1968
Some northern politician said, "All we want is their peace and harmony." Southern politicians thought he said, "All we want is their peas and hominy." Dixie wasn't about to give up it's peas and hominy, so the fight was on.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:14 pm to Auburn1968
Lincoln letting the states of the future CSA exercise their constitutional right to secede.
Posted on 6/2/26 at 7:16 pm to Auburn1968
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That's the opposite of all of the context. Many cultures fought wars to enslave others, but no others fought a war to end slavery. Haiti might be an exception to that.
And how’d that work out for Haiti?
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