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rdean
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...The fact is the war WAS NEVER ABOUT SLAVERY....
funny, every declaration of secession by the CSA states said slavery was a major part of it.
if slavery didn't exist in the USA there would have never been a civil war.
That may be, but it did exist, and it was allowed by the Constitution that becomes the governing authority of all states that join the union. And it was not slavery but the punative measures the North used to impose on the South by do gooders opposing slavery that compelled the Southern states to withdraw. Would those punative measures have been inflicted if there was no slavery? Probably not. But it was not the South's misconduct toward the North that caused the Civil War but rather it was the North's determination to control the South that caused the Civil War.
If thee had been no power struggle in Europe at the time, there would have been no WWI. If Nazi-ism and Fasism didn't exist, there would have been no WWII. If communism didn't exist, there would have been no war in Korea and no Vietnam War. If Muslim fanaticism didn't exist, there would be no war in Afghanistan now.
If Lincoln had been willing to allow the South to withdraw peacefully and do its own thing, there would have been no Civil War.
Bull shit. There would have been a Civil War all right. Just not that one.