The anger and pent-up hostility seems to be yours, sheila, so I will chock it up to you projecting inner problems onto me. That's OK: I can take it. You and Intense are relying on scholarship twenty and more years in the past: slavery certainly was not on the way out. The anger here seems to come from the revisionists who wish to blame the CW on anything but slavery, when, in fact, slavery was the root cause for every other symptom of it.
Thanks for your concern.
My position on Slavery is that of Thoreau. I am not trying to play revisionist. There were anti-slavery movements throughout the land, even in the south. There were many that were against slavery for moral and ethical reasons. It is not fair to say what could or could not have been had things gone differently. Even how long the war lasted was a factor, even the treatment of the south after it ended. We do not live under the Federalism of Madison and Jefferson. Hamilton corrupted the Body and we have yet to recover. The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions are proof of that.
I do not divert the blame of the Civil War from Slavery, it was a part of it, a major factor. It is wrong of you to assume to know my position. The power plays of the federal government that benefited the north and screwed over the south went back as far as how we dealt with Revolutionary War Debt. Hamilton type schemes plagued both the Washington and Adams administrations. They Effected the role of the supreme Court under Madison. Yes slavery was more than the last straw, much more, so was Washington math, one for you, two for me.