NO one in the North went to War to free the slaves. Purportedly, it was to save the Union. But as is usually the case, it was pure economic interests that caused each side to go to war.stuper1 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 20, 2020 7:47 pm A good Tom Woods podcast recently discussed the problems with Abe Lincoln. The historian being interviewed said that the states prior to the Civil War made up a republic. Whereas the states after the civil war are a "union" essentially in the same sense as the Soviet Union was a union, i.e. under coercion. The media are just Pravda spouting the party line to keep the fiction of a republic and the reality of this new "union" going.
He also debunked the starry eyed view that the Civil War was due to the north wanting to free the slaves. It sounds like it was fought mainly over economic issues, which is much more believable to me, as that seems the primary motivation to war.
The South needed to have new states in the West be slave states as King Cotton constantly needed more land.
For the North, if the South was allowed to secede as a separate country the monied people in the North would lose their investments in the South and they'd be at the mercy of whatever prices the South wanted to charge for cotton. Finally, Lincoln knew the fledgling Republican Party would soon go extinct if so soon as its formation, the South permanently seceded from the country.
Vinny