Ifreann wrote:Kash Island wrote:
The civil war was far more complex than that, it was nearly just about "muh slaves"
the south was extremely reliant on slave labor which was a large driving factor in their ideology, but it was mostly economics. Slavery was an issue but it's not like the north and south slugged it out to free the black man.
The Confederates started the war because they hated the idea of blacks ever being equal to whites, they said so themselves. Whereas the Union just defended itself, and this incidentally lead to emancipation. So you're wrong in that the war was over slavery, but you're right in that the Union wasn't fighting to free slaves.
meh yeah i can see it.