The "War between the States" did not start over Slavery

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It was All about "More Government", & "Money".​

Pay Attention in this article, to what Lincoln stated about Slavery, and that he stated that Northern Slave States could continue to own Slaves if they did not secede!

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Doug Casey on The Real Causes of The American War of Secession​

by Doug Casey

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Editor’s Note: Doug is a longtime member of a dinner club in Buenos Aires called The Round Table. The over 100 years old group is composed of eight Argentines, eight Englishmen, and eight Americans. Every month, one of them gives a paper on a subject they’re knowledgeable about and, after discussion, everyone sits down to a catered dinner. It’s one of the niceties of living in Buenos Aires.


This paper presents an underappreciated view of the American war between the states.


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I wish to disabuse you of something you’ve probably believed since you were ten years old. Only a third of you have been subjected to the American public school version of history, but that version has permeated throughout the world. After all, the winners get to write the history books. What Americans are taught about their so-called “Civil War” is, in good measure, a fairy tale.


Let’s start by getting the terminology right. It wasn’t a “civil war.” A civil war is a conflict in which two or more factions fight for control of the same government. That’s not what happened. The South wasn’t trying to take over the North. Their sole objective was to leave the Union. That made it a war of secession. Calling it a civil war is propaganda—framing Southerners as rebels and insurgents rather than people who simply wanted to go their own way. Some call it the War of Northern Aggression, a name which might have stuck if the Confederacy had won. I prefer to be neutral, so I will call it the War Between the States.


The standard narrative holds that the noble North, led by the saintly Abraham Lincoln, fought the evil South to free the slaves. Full stop. Now, more than any time in the past, that’s the whole story as far as most Americans are concerned. It’s on a par with believing that Spain blew up the battleship Maine to start the Spanish-American War, or that World War I was fought to “make the world safe for democracy.” I’ll reserve comment on more recent wars. But good propaganda always contains a kernel of truth, even while truth is always the first casualty in a war.

Doug Casey on The Real Causes of The American War of Secession

The American Civil War was shaped by slavery, tariffs, states’ rights, federal power, regional economic conflict, and British geopolitical pressure rather than a single-cause narrative.

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