Reparations Were Already Paid 160 Years Ago
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The Civil War was not primarily about freeing slaves.
Lincoln was willing to sign a Constitutional Amendment legalizing slavery to avoid Civil War, so why would he go to war over it?
I tell you. The South left the union because the north was putting undue stress on southern manufacturing capacity and shipping ports. Lincoln went to war to save the Union. Freeing the slaves after the war was just a way for the union to break the south.
http://ashevilletribune.com/archives/censored-truths/Morrill%20Tariff.html
UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF THE UNCIVIL WAR
A Brief Explanation of the Impact of the Morrill Tariff
By Mike Scruggs for the Tribune Papers
Most Americans believe the U. S. “Civil War” was over slavery. They have to an enormous degree been miseducated. The means and timing of handling the slavery issue were at issue, although not in the overly simplified moral sense that lives in postwar and modern propaganda. But had there been no Morrill Tariff there might never have been a war. The conflict that cost of the lives of 650,000 Union and Confederate soldiers and perhaps as many as 50,000 Southern civilians and impoverished many millions for generations might never have been.
http://ashevilletribune.com/archives/censored-truths/Morrill%20Tariff.html
Most on GAW know it was to save the Union and to keep one nation, but the abolition movement in the north was strong and many men who fought were doing it to end slavery. That was also a part of the equation.
And most normies only know of that reason. You gotta take things one at a time with the sheep.
Nothing was saved. A new country was born.
Lincoln declared war to keep the Union together, true.
The south succeeded almost entirely due to slavery. They say as much in their letters of succession; which they (rightfully) feared the new Republican party would end.
Fair, the point being it wasn’t some altruistic movement of freedom but a political/economic lever to force others into submission.
Specifically increasing the power of the federal government and decreasing the power of the state governments. It's when "these" United States became "the" United States.
I would say the American Civil War was the end of the American Republic and the beginning of an American Empire.
Exactly.