Subj : The Birth of a Nation (19
To : Arelor
From : MRO
Date : Sat Nov 05 2022 03:24 pm
Re: The Birth of a Nation (19
By: Arelor to MRO on Sat Nov 05 2022 09:59 am
> Re: The Birth of a Nation (19
> By: MRO to Dumas Walker on Wed Oct 19 2022 09:03 pm
>
> > I think slavery as a contributer to civil war was a red herring.
>
> I think it was Lincoln himself who said that his main goal was to unify the
> USA and that he would take any flag that furthered that goal. If removal of
> slavery had not been an useful flag, he would not have used it. If the
> imposition of slavery had been a good flag to gather his people around, he
> would have used it. I don't remember the exact quite but the idea was just
> that one.
the unifier was the war. the north won against the state.
each state drew up a declaration with reasons of why they were succeeding.
they didn't say 'because you are stopping slavery'. they had some really good points.
I did phrase that wrong. i should have said MAIN contributer. It certainly was a factor; the southern states not getting the support and respect they needed from the federal govt was the driving reason the southern states wanted to leave.
