Okay /his/, let's settle this.What was the TRUE cause of the American Civil War?>slaveryThis is what most historians say caused the Civil War. I used to believe this too. But after learning more about the war and the Confederacy, I realized slavery was a major cause, but not the only one.Most people see the Civil War as happening because Southern states seceded after Lincoln's election, fearing his anti-slavery views. And there is a lot of evidence for slavery being a cause, especially in the seceding states' "Declarations of Causes".I'm not denying slavery played a huge role in secession and starting the war. It absolutely did. But what many people forget is that states' rights also played a major role, both in causing the war and during the war itself.>states rightsUnlike slavery, the states' rights argument is often dismissed as Lost Cause revisionism. I find that ironic because there was a time when the more common view was that the Civil War had multiple causes, not just one.Nowadays, normies believe slavery was the Confederacy's only goal and reason for existing. I used to slightly think that too. But after learning more about the war, it became clear to me that states' rights mattered a lot as well.One of the biggest examples is how often Confederate states refused to cooperate with each other because they were so committed to state sovereignty. Confederate President Jefferson Davis himself complained that the South "died of a principle."States like Georgia and South Carolina often hoarded troops for local defense instead of sending them where they were needed. States also kept resources for themselves, resisted central authority, restricted trade, and sometimes put their own interests above the Confederate war effort.If that doesn't show states' rights played a big role, I don't know what will.
>>18503033>What was the TRUE cause of the American Civil War?Short answer: Slavery.Long answer: Slavery because.Slavery allowed the land owning elites in the South to get extraordinarily wealthy off of agrarian economics. And they were individually wealthy and not dependent on outside sources of materiel and assemblage to remain wealthy. They didn't need extensive supply lines and complex trade networks to keep factories powered, manned, and operating with the goods therein produced being shipped to markets both foreign and domestic atop railways and ships. They grew their money. So long as they could export their goods the money would keep flowing. Slavery allowed them to accrue an enormous amount of capital which they used to fund, equip, man, train, deploy and above all else pay large armies to defend their power and prestige against what they perceived as a threat. And even endeavor to expand their power should fortune favor it. Slavery was a distinct and independent economic system that had very wealthy men at the top who collectively controlled every facet of life in the south, that wealth and power, built on the suffering of an entire race, allowed them to pay to start a war. For all men on both sides endured the depravities and deprivations the war demanded of each soldier. But not a one did so for free. Not even those paid with the monopoly money the confederacy would ultimately print.
>>18503051FPBPOf course, the reason the South became so full of wealthy slave owners to begin with is because they had a vested interest in protecting their livelihoods, so they integrated themselves within southern politics to suppress abolitionist movements
>>18503033It was a war between Capitalism and Communism.The Communists won and elevated slavery into a universal, constitutional right of the nation and socialized slave ownership.
>>18503057>>18503051I understand that the slaves of the Souths originate from northern breeding stocks, making the slave trade the business that integrated the Louisiana Purchase into the Union.The way the North and South get compartmentalized in the narrative is deeply political, because in reality, they're monkeys swinging on the same bar.
>>18503033>This is what most historians say caused the Civil WarYeah, because the Confederate constitution and declaration of decision outline this almost immediately.
states rights... to turn themselves into Haiti with infinite niggers
