What was the Civil War really about?

[EraGodless]

iT wAs AboUT STatEs rIGHts!!

Yeah to have slaves you fucking retards

No- not to have slaves dummy, it was a matter of representation in the federal government in terms of slave State's. The slave states actually wanted slaves to count as people as part of the population count. The Northern states or eventually Union, didn't. Hence the 3/5ths compromise. Northern states literally didn't want slaves to count as people- so the compromise was they were considered 3/5ths of a person.

 

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[Cptbaldopie]

The worst part about slavery is that we now have blacks.

 

[LingerLonger]

The worst part about slavery is that we now have blacks.

One of the last things that Lincoln wrote in his diaries was that he wanted all niggers to be deported to Africa. Not just slaves but all of them. Free niggers, travelers from other continents, and even their descendants including mulatto mongrels. Take all of them and forcibly deport them to Central America and Africa where they would never be allowed to return.

Within weeks of writing that an (((actor))) shot him to death.

 

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Within weeks of writing that an (((actor))) shot him to death.

I'd pay to see a Broadway play about that. Have Joey from friends shoot Lincoln because Ross convinces him.

 

[Dawn’sHairyClit]

It was really more about the expansion of slavery into the newly acquired territories gained from the Mexican War. There were comprises and schemes put in place to deal with the issue of slavery in the territories (Missouri Compromise) but eventually popular sovereignty became the solution with the Kansas-Nebraska Act and that sort of created the first mini Civil War in Kansas (along the Missouri border) as Abolitionist and Pro Slavery supporters flooded in.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

If the Jews weren’t mentioned yet then this board is slipping.

 

[TomFromNawlins]

No- not to have slaves dummy, it was a matter of representation in the federal government in terms of slave State's. The slave states actually wanted slaves to count as people as part of the population count. The Northern states or eventually Union, didn't. Hence the 3/5ths compromise. Northern states literally didn't want slaves to count as people- so the compromise was they were considered 3/5ths of a person.

Funny that the blacks today complain about slaves being counted as 3/5ths of a person when counting them fully would’ve provided greater power to the slave states, but then again we’re not dealing with the sharpest knives in the drawer.

 

[Dawn’sHairyClit]

All wars have "official" (usually noble) claims but hidden, more ignoble reasons.

Jefferson Davis was really just an American Volodomir Zelensky (he had British Empire advice and aid). The British Empire was funding the Confederate states because their Textile industry depended on Southern Cotton. So they had an economic motive to side with the South. The British were building and supplying all the Ships and shit for the Confederates. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_diplomacy

If the British weren't already occupied with the Crimean war a few years earlier, they would have even done more...if they knew they could rely on France, they wouldn't worry about an American invasion of Canada as retaliation (only thing preventing the British navy from blockading American ships from entering Europe).

After the duel CSA failed incursions north to the border states of Maryland and Kentucky in September of 1862 (Antietam and Perryville), the British government knew the Confederacy was never going to win militarily. The British and French were close though to giving the CSA full diplomatic recognition in the Summer of 1862 after Lee’s victories outside of Richmond during the Seven Days campaign and in particular his routing of Pope’s army at Second Bull Run