(August 20, 2017 at 12:04 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(August 17, 2017 at 9:32 am)Brian37 Wrote: No, the South fought to keep slavery, that is not subject to change.
The Sought didn't actually fight to keep slavery since slavery was completely legal in America under the Constitution. It could have kept its slaves even after the shooting started if they had simply stopped fighting and returned to the Union.
They didn't think so. The expansion of the US was bringing more and more non-slave areas into the US and this was upsetting the balance of power in Congress. The possibility that slavery could be outlawed by a vote in Congress worried them. Many thought that the only way to preserve "our peculiar institution" was to get out NOW.
