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aaafirefly123 -16 points ago +8 / -24

No slavery needed to die.

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OrdinaryFellow 39 points ago +42 / -3

The civil war wasn't about slavery.

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Ameronaut 7 points ago +7 / -0

It was more than that, look up the nullification crisis

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Forgotmyname -19 points ago +2 / -21

Prove it

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Boijoina 16 points ago +18 / -2

It was about the states ability to sever from the federal compact. Slavery was just the easiest way to get people to die for each side.

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endthefed11 14 points ago +14 / -0

Correct. States joined the union with the understanding that they could leave if they so desired.

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OrdinaryFellow 9 points ago +9 / -0

the fight for slavery was mostly a discussion between elites. Soldiers on both sides didn't really care about the issue.

Although there were opposing views even in the Union States,[28][29] most Northern soldiers were mostly indifferent on the subject of slavery

In particular, Southerners feared a repeat of "the horrors of Santo Domingo", in which nearly all white people – including men, women, children, and even many sympathetic to abolition – were killed after the successful slave revolt in Haiti.

Slavery is seen as the main topic of contention in the civil war, because in modern day America, racial conflict is made the center of everything.

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Forgotmyname -10 points ago +1 / -11

So one side was fighting to keep slaves. And one side was fighting to free slaves. But it wasn’t about slaves. Wow

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ProdigalPlaneswalker 8 points ago +9 / -1

slavery still exists

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Wanderlust 7 points ago +7 / -0

Slavery was dieing on its own.