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Ka,
Slavery was NOT a side issue. Of course, Beard's thesis about economics
playing a determining factor is important... And, yes, states rights
played a minor role... but the issue of slavery was something that had to
be resolved. On that issue, there was no room for compromise. Americans
tried to somehow live "half-slave, half-free" but it wasn't working out.
But the idea that ALL southerners supported the Confederacy is a fraud.
(or the notion that all northerners were anti-slavery is false as well.)
An aspect of the Civil War that is seldom addressed is the role of women
in the conflict... Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" played an
instrumental role in winning white women over to the cause of
abolitionism. Why? Because it depicted the plight of black women in the
south (who were unprotected...often raped and abused by their white male
owners.) Stowe's book outraged the women of the north.
If you go back and read the letters, diaries of ordinary people of the
period, you will find that their was a widespread anti-slavery sentiment
among ordinary Americans. They just believed that the idea of human
beings owning other human beings was a bad one.
Twenty-two members of my family fought for the Confederacy. Six members
of my grandmother's family fought for the Union. Many poor southerners
did not own slaves... they didn't fight for slavery, necessarily.. many of
them were led to believe that the Union was their enemy...an outside force
trying to impose an "alien" culture in their regions.... And they served
in the Confederacy out of loyalty to their family members and
friends...the local community in which they lived... so the history of
that period is complex.. And most of them (whether Union or Confederate)
were damned glad that the war
finally was put to an end!
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, KA wrote:
> -Caveat Lector-
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> On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Sno0wl wrote:
> >I think that we fought a terrible and bloody Civil War to end
> >slavery.
>
> No, the Civil War was about States' Rights...slavery was a side issue,
> and Lincoln did NOT support the Union coming out with a diffinitive
> statement against slavery...
>
> But neither the emancipationists nor the women's suffragists had to stage
> a coup d'etat to gain the right to vote, they were eventually able to
> gain that right thru legislative means...
>
>
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