Comment by anonymouskimmer
3 years ago
> As bad as the USA, it's the only country to go to civil war to free slaves of another race
"free slaves of another race"? Some of those going to war were people of that race. On both sides.
This is also a bit ahistorical as Lincoln was willing to allow slavery in order to keep the union. It was really the south who chose to go to war in order to guarantee slavery would stay; the north chose to go to war in order to keep the union. The slavery issue was used by the north, initially, to keep the anti-slavery UK from siding with the south.
Eh, the US went to a civil war because half of the country (the south) started attacking national (i.e. union) armories/forts.
Of course there was some lead up to that but the actual flashpoint is that the south started it and they didn't do so to free northern slaves. Northern congressmen were not pushing for any bills that removed slavery from the south and etc; there wasn't an imminent (i.e. during Lincoln's presidency) existential threat that the North would end slavery in the South except the one the South manufactured.
But I thought it was the war of Northern aggression? :P
Yeah, that's even better than what I stated.