(October 3, 2014 at 5:21 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 3, 2014 at 4:20 pm)Endo Wrote: I'm certainly NOT arguing that point. What I'm presenting as my understanding of the historical context is that the Civil War was not started for the purpose of freeing the slaves.
No, civil war was started by those who hitched their wagen to the slavery horse for the purpose of trying to preemptively checkmate any attempts to free slaves by those who weren't even, on average, all that eager to free slaves.
The American Civil War was primarily about states' rights versus federalism. Just look at the Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
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Science is not a subject, but a method.
