re: Was slavery an important factor in the Civil War?

NO. It was not the overriding factor.

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I'm glad this board has finally broached this subject.

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Amen!

There are so many Other threads to ramble about Marxist’s in.

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But the statues are not of common, run of the mill soldiers,

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Well, they weren't going to build millions of statues, now, were they?

And there are memorials to common Confederate soldiers that are also under attack.

It was about economics more so than slavery. But for the south at the time slavery was a big part of economics as the slaves provided the workers to produce raw materials that were sold to factories.


There was a dispute at the time about whether the south’s raw materials should be sold to northern factories who were in the industrial revolution and wanted to produce finish goods to sell to Europe and the US. The south was getting a higher price to sell the finished goods to Europeans to produce goods in their factories during the industrial revolution

The north then blockaded the southern ports to stop European shipping and the sell of raw materials the Europeans bypassing the northern factories which ultimately started the war.

So it was more complicated than just slavery it was all about the economy and the pocketbooks of the northern industrialists

Yes. It was in their articles of secession. The Democrats would literally kill to keep their slaves.

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to the southern rich which obviously controlled the southern government yes, but to a large part of the south it was "the second war of independence" . During any speech made by southern generals or writings down to southern privates diaries is slavery ever mentioned, most believed they were defending their country against an invasion.

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Virginia had a slate of electors to decide on secession. They were predominately against it until Lincoln raised his army to invade.

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lmao it’s THE major factor in EVERY single CSA state’s Ordinance of Secession.

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If we had a coal based economy, and the North wanted to outlaw our ability to mine, use, and sell coal, then EVERY single CSA article of Secession would've said "coal"....see how this works? The Civil War, like all wars in human history, was fought over economics. Recasting as a moral crusade is a benefit given to the winner.

If the North were so virtuous as to send their boys to fight and die for the freedom of Africans I suspect the Emancipation Proclamation would've also freed Northern slaves.

I agree that it was a big part of the reason for succession. But don’t you think it’s disingenuous to say Democrats wanted to keep slavery and things like Democrats voted to keep segregation and against the civil rights act. There was a huge shift in the parties. White, southern conservatives (the group that is largely Republican today) were Democrats during the time you are referencing. Remember the Ronald Reagan quote “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the Democratic parry left me.” There was a huge shift in the 2 parties during the 60,70, and 80’s.

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It was a war about money, first and foremost.

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Yea the money that slavery brought in.