Anon Archived I'm happy Google banned PragerU, if they hadn't I would have never found it (prageru.com)
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Anon Archived I'm happy Google banned PragerU, if they hadn't I would have never found it (prageru.com)
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[–] tcp 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago
PragerU also claimed the main reason for fighting the Civil War was slavery, so why are you interested in what they have to say?
[–] KeksMex 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
That is a debate that continues to this day. I don't know enough about the subject or really care TBH but it seems a lot of people are vehement that we did not fight over slavery and the history books have been deliberately obfuscated.
[–] 7e62ce85 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
General Lee apparently wanted to free the slaves so they could avoid the whole thing. Canada I believe paid the slave owners to release their slaves peacefully.
There is a case to be made for the actual conflict being over state's rights and the slaves being used as an excuse.
I'm not an expert though and only parroting what I heard here.
[–] truthhurts09 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Here's an excellent break down someone else originaly posted on why it wasn't about slavery. https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-so-called-american-civil-war-was-not-over-slavery/5605505
[–] Thisismyvoatusername ago (edited ago)
The problem is that you really cannot decouple slavery from the state vs federal issue. Without slavery it is highly unlikely there would have been a war even given the different economies and trade interests in the North and South. But it is also unlikely slavery would have caused a war if the states were more aligned on trade and economic issues. I say this as someone who generally argues the issue was more about states rights and trade policy, not slavery.
[–] tcp ago
Slavery as a (secondary) economic issue. No one would make the following ridiculous claim: The South was against the (blood and toil) machine of the North that demanded regulation, tariffs, and regular industry inputs from supporting regions, and, in essence, the Confederacy stood in ideological opposition to a system that was using child and female labor in soul-sucking factories.