Paul Craig Roberts is a writer for the Institute for Political Economy and has written a piece that goes into detail about how the American Civil War was not actually fought over the issue of slavery, but over other economic and political woes that forced the hand of the Northern Union government, the feds, to offer an olive branch of sorts to the South to stop them from seceding from the Union.
Roberts writes that the North was not at all concerned about slavery as an issue at that time, even stating that they would end the ability of the Congress to alter the course of individual states’ rights when it came to slavery, which was ultimately rejected. He further notes that the South rejected the olive branch outright because this, to the South, was never about slavery and that the Civil War to come was only said to be fought over this hotly-contested issue because the North won the war and, therefore, were able to write the history.
The “court historians” as he refers to them were able to bend and shape the history in order to make the South look like a bunch of bigoted and racist slave-owners and the North to look like a bunch of saintly abolitionists.
Read on the following page, however, as Roberts’ argument, although technically correct, doesn’t really hold water when you apply the events leading up to the Civil War. It’s an interesting take on the war’s reasoning, though not original, and proves that sometimes even the “court historians” get things right!
Try to explain this to a ignorant uneducated blk !
Lincoln would not have fought a war over slavery , said he refuse to sacrifice one northern life !
Ok , please read , only 1% of the blks back then were actual slaves , and lots of blks volunteered to work on plantations so they could eat snd have a place to sleep , plus most of the plantation owners employed teachers to try to teach the smarter blks !
The civil war was fought because the Northern states wanted to put extreme taxs on cotton , originally had nothing to do with slavery, lots of Northerners owned slaves ! I liked to refer to the war as a war between the northern republicans and the southern Democrats ! The KKK was formed by the Democrats to control and chase down runaway slaves , the Democrats put up all the confederate statues there tearing down today , what a fucking joke !!!
Bull s**t
Only certain people hold slaves dealing with Democrats look it up on you tube
Wrong yet again. The Civil war was a get years. Slavery existed long before the War between the states and still exists in the world.
I have not heard anyone justify slavery! That is your patter not anyone else
Humm that is a debate for another time and place. But you might not be accurate.
Yankee point of view!!! Grant had slaves till the end of the imvasion of the south!!!
It was about money and taxation… Slavery just got caught up in it… luckily for the slaves. Be glad this country abolished slavery…perhaps people should protest countries that still have slaves…like AFRICA!
Yeah democrats owed a lot of slaves.
If the muslims see an opening they’ll still use blacks as slaves as they have throughout history and as they are now in many other countries. No more slavery in our America so lets leave it that way.