Ehhhhh....technicaly not in the first stage of the war the objective of the South was to create a state of their own because the law voted in the Capital where heavily hitting they trade. And then reaching 1863 it was actually because of plain slavery ? Or was it actually slavery since the begining..**** there was so much revisionism on that.
Like every war it was shades of truth. Slavery was the issue, but it was more akin to the straw that broke the Camel's back, the war was the conflict between two ideas of government, strong central government, or diversified State Governments, with the South choosing State governments and the North calling for Strong Federal Government. Slavery was the issue that sparked the war in a sense, that and trade tariffs.
The South was afraid the North would use Central government powers to attack slavery and thus the Southern Economy and Southern influence on the Government. In addition, many Southerners were afraid of freeing the slaves without proper measures being taken due to recent slave revolts.
TLDR. To say the Civil war was about Slavery is incorrect, but so is to say that Slavery had nothing to do with it.
Ehhhhh....technicaly not in the first stage of the war the objective of the South was to create a state of their own because the law voted in the Capital where heavily hitting they trade. And then reaching 1863 it was actually because of plain slavery ? Or was it actually slavery since the begining..**** there was so much revisionism on that.
Like every war it was shades of truth. Slavery was the issue, but it was more akin to the straw that broke the Camel's back, the war was the conflict between two ideas of government, strong central government, or diversified State Governments, with the South choosing State governments and the North calling for Strong Federal Government. Slavery was the issue that sparked the war in a sense, that and trade tariffs.
The South was afraid the North would use Central government powers to attack slavery and thus the Southern Economy and Southern influence on the Government. In addition, many Southerners were afraid of freeing the slaves without proper measures being taken due to recent slave revolts.
TLDR. To say the Civil war was about Slavery is incorrect, but so is to say that Slavery had nothing to do with it.
Thanks for clearing that a bit !