The secession of the southern states was all about slavery, the war itself was about preservation of the Union.
Don't be afraid to see what you see
Ownership and right to build Ft Sumter was settled in 1841..... Look it up, you"knuckledragger".
NPS Historical Handbook: Fort Sumter
In the preceding May, one William Laval, resident of Charleston, had secured from the State a conveniently vague grant to 870 acres of "land" in Charleston Harbor. In November, acting under this grant, Laval notified the representative of the United States Engineers at Fort Johnson of his claim to the site of Fort Sumter.
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onli...h/12/hh12a.htm
I didn't say that. There were other issues...most of the ones posted in this discussion were not but mythologies created in the late 19th Century. For example States Rights. The other issues involved were essentially extraneous or irrelevent. No Slavery issue, no Civil War. That's a fact. Not an opinion. The vast majority of these so called other issues are Lost Cause Mythologies.
You're Never Alone With A Schizophrenic!
Minister of Truth (11-20-2018), Phantasmal (11-19-2018)
A sad commentary on we, as a people, and our viewpoint of our freedom can be summed up like this. We have liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, yet those very people look at Constitutionalists as radical and extreme.................so those liberals and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans must believe that the constitution is radical and extreme.
Lightbringer (11-19-2018), sear (11-19-2018)
Thread: TX schools will now teach that Civil War was all about slavery!!!
Please enlighten us all. We ALL know what it was NOT all about.
Please remind us all what it WAS all about.
Thanks.
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