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Originally posted by scottmandue
Okay you history buffs help me out here.
This may be totally bogus but...
Someone told me that the civil war was not fought over slavery.
Anyone care to field that one?
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It certainly was. In fact the Republican party started as the 'abolition party', Lincoln was their first candidate. A large majority of the Christian folk who fought and died in the Civil War thought, rightly or wrongly, that they were freeing the slaves--the Abolition Party. The 'Emancipation Proclamation' and the fact that the single greatest product of the Civil War was an end to slavery only bolsters that conclusion...Surely there were other motivations but they were not the motivations that encouraged the common folk to fight and die...If it wasn't about slavery, why didn't the Republicans call themselves something besides the 'Abolition Party'?