Anonymous #1 3w

Thats why the North said they were fighting to preserve the Union

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Anonymous #1 3w

secede* dumb mistake

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Anonymous #1 3w

Yes the South wanted to leave to preserve slavery and yes the War did have the effect of ending slavery but you're a fucking lunatic if you think that they were fighting the war for the black people experiencing slavery and not for the country's economic and political goals.

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Anonymous #1 3w

Why did they want to secede

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Anonymous #1 3w

Lincoln's idea before the war was to send the slaves back to Africa

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Anonymous #1 3w

Not joking no

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Anonymous #2 3w

They wanted to be independent

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Anonymous #1 3w

Yeah but why

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

The North didn't want them to because they wanted to preserve the Union

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Anonymous #1 3w

No why did the south want to secede in the first place

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

They wanted to be independent

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Anonymous #1 3w

Why

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

I think they had economic incentive or something?

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Anonymous #1 3w

and what was the foundation of the south’s economy? What type of labor was used?

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Anonymous #1 3w

Well, the southern economy was agrarian, based on monoculture exports, while the northern economy was industrializing. This means that the north and south had divergent economic interests, and any economic policy would either help the north and hurt the south, or vice-versa. So sectional conflict was always going to happen

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Anonymous #1 3w

But the south’s economy was based on slavery. It wouldn’t have been able to function the way it did if it didn’t feature slavery. So north-south conflict came to resolve around slavery because naturally, everybody associated slavery with the south

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Anonymous #1 3w

Dude this has been so played out by now 💀 you are straight up dishonest if you wanna claim the civil war wasn’t about slavery. Read what any serious historian has to say about it

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

So you would agree the South seceded and the North then declared war to stop the succession?

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

Or are you all stuck clinging to the idea that the Civil War was based on some civil rights movement?

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Anonymous #1 3w

That’s not really in contention. The north initially fought to prevent secession, with abolition becoming a secondary war goal as the war went on. This doesn’t mean that nobody in the north was anti slavery, though, or that no northern politicians or generals entered the war intending to end slavery

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Anonymous #1 3w

You didn’t answer

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Anonymous #2 3w

Lowk not talking to you lil bro

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Anonymous #1 3w

Lowk you were before you conveniently decided to avoid my question

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Anonymous #1 3w

And the fact that the north didn’t initially invade to abolish slavery, doesn’t mean that the south didn’t secede to preserve slavery

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Anonymous #2 3w

Ik

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

I never said it did

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Anonymous #1 3w

Thanks for admitting to avoiding my question lol.

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Anonymous #1 3w

This whole conversation is supposed to be about why the south seceded

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Anonymous bongo_fury 3w

It was about the point of the war

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