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[–] 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.

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[–] 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.