Some Background to the Civil War

The war was fought over slavery, of course. That was the reason that the South rebelled in the first place. However, the North was not fighting the war to get rid of slavery. They were fighting the war under the principle of the preservation of the Union and to set a precedent whereby no state or region could secede from the Union.

Anyone who tells you the South was fighting for anything other than slavery is full of it.

Even by the 1830’s, there were many Southern Whites working in the fields for wages, albeit low wages. They mingled there with the Black slaves. These White men had sex with a lot of Black slaves and many mixed offspring were produced. There’s no record of a racist abuse of the slaves by the White workers, since any White who hated Blacks that much wouldn’t even be there in the first place.

The cotton gin had been manufactured. Bottom line was slavery was doomed. After the Civil War, it only persisted in Brazil where it was outlawed in the 1880’s. It was the last count…