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starwberry
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I was watching the news last night. It showed a group of Confederate Historians raising a large flag to celebrate their southern history. I was happy to see several black members in the group. They also interviewed the leader of the nearby NAACP group. The flag cast a shadow of their building. He said it was an insult, but he realized that it was a part of history.
Why is it that there are still so many people who think that the civil war was about slavery?
The War Between the States began because the South demanded States' rights & were not getting them. The Congress at that time heavily favored the industrialized northern states & demanded that the South sell its cotton & other raw materials only to the north, rather than to other countries. The Congress also taxed the finished materials that the north produced heavily, making products that the South wanted, unaffordable. It sounds much like the reason we broke from Great Britain to begin with!
If the Northern States & their representatives in Congress had only listened to the problems of the South, then the war would not have occurred.
After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Abraham Lincoln decided to free the slaves in the Confederate States to punish those states for continuing in war. The war had been in progress for TWO years by that time. Most southerners DID NOT EVEN OWN slaves nor did they own plantations. Most of them were small farmers who were fighting for their rights. It was more about preserving the United States & protecting the rights of the individual, the very tenets upon which this country was founded.
The people who profess that the Civil War was only fought about slavery have not read their history books. I really am glad that slavery was abolished, but I don't think it should be glorified as being the sole reason the Civil War was fought. There are MANY more issues that people were intensely passionate about at the time.
Why is it that people forget the REAL reasons?
Why is it that there are still so many people who think that the civil war was about slavery?
The War Between the States began because the South demanded States' rights & were not getting them. The Congress at that time heavily favored the industrialized northern states & demanded that the South sell its cotton & other raw materials only to the north, rather than to other countries. The Congress also taxed the finished materials that the north produced heavily, making products that the South wanted, unaffordable. It sounds much like the reason we broke from Great Britain to begin with!
If the Northern States & their representatives in Congress had only listened to the problems of the South, then the war would not have occurred.
After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, Abraham Lincoln decided to free the slaves in the Confederate States to punish those states for continuing in war. The war had been in progress for TWO years by that time. Most southerners DID NOT EVEN OWN slaves nor did they own plantations. Most of them were small farmers who were fighting for their rights. It was more about preserving the United States & protecting the rights of the individual, the very tenets upon which this country was founded.
The people who profess that the Civil War was only fought about slavery have not read their history books. I really am glad that slavery was abolished, but I don't think it should be glorified as being the sole reason the Civil War was fought. There are MANY more issues that people were intensely passionate about at the time.
Why is it that people forget the REAL reasons?