captain-price-official:

vaguelyconcernedtriangle:

The unfortunate truth is that the war wouldn’t have started if not for deliberate military occupation by the North.

But the American Confederacy and the American Union allowed Slavery.

Claiming that one side opposed slavery and the other supported it just isn’t factual.

captain-price-official:

Hush now, Dixieboo, the adults are talking.

fancytowne:

All this does is acknowledge that the secessions were, for the most part, about slavery. This is not sufficient to establish that slavery was the cause of the war.

This is like saying the cause of the Vietnam War was that North Vietnam wanted to unite the north and the south under one communist system; while this is an accurate statement, it does nothing to address the US’s motivation for involvement.

footnoteinhistory:

Thank you, great resource!!!

lost-hues-of-days-past:

footnoteinhistory:

I can’t speak to the individual state declarations or constitutions, but the Constitution of the Confederacy included specific references to slavery and Alexander Stephens’ Cornerstone Speech, describing the basis of the Confederacy, is an explicit defense and promotion of slavery. Anyone arguing that the Civil War was not about slavery, at this point, is willfully and dangerously ignorant

Here’s a good list of state declarations that made mention of slavery.