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!
Doesn’t fit their agenda. The weren’t protesting during the previous 8 years. Why now?
Slavery is STILL with us. As long as liberals continue to enable those that don’t want to work, those people become slaves to the system and that life style is taught to the next generation.
Slaves was jist as big in the north as it was in the south read you history
Lincoln was in favor of sending all of the slaves to Liberia. Liberia is a country that the US bought for the slaves.
I’m finding it hard to believe anything they say about anything anymore .
I’m sorry to tell all you people of color posting on here it’s not the Democrats that are enslaving you yes they’re enslaving you. With all that said you started this mess 6000 years ago and you’re still doing it today there were black slave owners in the south I see nothing but hit pieocracy here and it’s high time that y’all start dealing with that you ought to be thanking God your ancestors got brought here 1 million of them at the height of the Civil War that’s how many of you got brought here over the periods because otherwise we wouldn’t be having this conversation you would be dead living in those 52 countries in that Dark Continent who has nothing but genocide each other for thousands of years
They are smart enough to see just how rich they arethey can’t think for themselves and anybody pushing FREE stuff they latch on. A SLAVE! Anytime they take free stuff from
The government they are owned!
And one other thing for all you people of color here your contribution to the South picking cotton for 1.6% of the population of the South didn’t help the other 98.5 not in the least and that 98.5% made up the bulk of the cotton being shipped out of Port of New Orleans a lot of folks back then including some of my family did not want y’all here did not want you brought here and certainly didn’t want to have to deal with you after all that so again you should be thankful as far as your enslavement today by the Democrats you’re the only ones that can get away from that nobody’s forcing you to take that and being an independent moderate conservative I hate the Democrats more than anything else I hate liberals more than anything else and I hate Muslims more than anything else
There are no slaves in America except in your own minds.
Well, @Vanessa McCoy, aren’t you just a transgender ray of loving sunshine?
Well, @Vanessa McCoy, aren’t you just a transgender ray of loving sunshine?