"Samantha L." wrote:
Thank you for this post. Having never looked into alternative views of the
Civil War myself, I did always wonder why - if slavery had been the defining
issue - that other means weren't taken to emancipate the slaves besides the
bloody, horrid war.
A few years after
from lewrockwell.com
Genesis of the Civil War
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
The historical event that looms largest
in American public consciousness is the
Civil War. One-hundred thirty-nine
years after the first shot was fired, its
genesis is still fiercely debated and its
symbols heralded and
In a message dated 5/12/00 11:04:07 AM Central Daylight Time,
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Northerners
were seeking a moral pretext for an
aggressive war, while Southern leaders
were seeking a threat more concrete
than the Northern tariff to justify a
drive to political independence.
