Haley declines to say slavery was cause of Civil WarRapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 437 points – 6 months agopolitico.com90Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent comment but the war was caused by slavery The war was caused by the federal government refusing to force northern states to return escaped slaves to the south... The southern states started a war over that If it was just over if slavery was legal, then why was the Emancipation Proclamation smack in the middle of the civil war? If the south wouldn't have started the civil war, it would have been years if not decades before the Feds outlawed slavery. The south wanted a strong federal government, and got it. Just not the way they wanted it. 9 more...
but the war was caused by slavery The war was caused by the federal government refusing to force northern states to return escaped slaves to the south... The southern states started a war over that If it was just over if slavery was legal, then why was the Emancipation Proclamation smack in the middle of the civil war? If the south wouldn't have started the civil war, it would have been years if not decades before the Feds outlawed slavery. The south wanted a strong federal government, and got it. Just not the way they wanted it. 9 more...
The war was caused by the federal government refusing to force northern states to return escaped slaves to the south...
The southern states started a war over that
If it was just over if slavery was legal, then why was the Emancipation Proclamation smack in the middle of the civil war?
If the south wouldn't have started the civil war, it would have been years if not decades before the Feds outlawed slavery.
The south wanted a strong federal government, and got it. Just not the way they wanted it.