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"N2EY" wrote:
You're forgetting at least two states. There were 34 in 1861, but 18+11+3 = 32 The other states did not get involved. There were 18 Union States and 11 Confederate States. California and Oregon wanted nothing to do with the issue or the conflict. The four border states did not secede. But slavery *was* threatened, because the trend was clear to see. As the West and Midwest developed, more and more free states would be added. (snip) The trend was not so clear. Certainly some of the Midwest states, dependant on farming, would want slaves. Then what *was* the South fighting for? What rights did the 11 states cherish so greatly that they would secede and fight a war to keep them? You're looking for an easy answer to a very complex question. I suspect there were as many reason for the conflict as their were people involved. Some of the roots of the Civil War dates back to the Revolutionary War nearly a century earlier, where many Southerners did not want to break with England, sided with England during the conflict, and were persecuted for that afterwards. Others objected to the taxes and tarrifs on farm goods heading overseas, seeing that as similar to what the North objected to leading up to the Revolutionary War and reducing profits from their primary markets. Others saw the attempts for fix market prices on farm goods by Northern firms as a threat to free markets (and were angry the government did nothing to stop the practice). Others objected to what they saw as efforts by Northern States to limit the political influence of the Southern States. The list goes on and on (and I certainly don't have the time to go on and on here). No argument there - but where were most of the slaves? In the Confederate states! Only if you ignore indentured, bound, or apprentice, workers in the North. These were people purchased at slave auctions (blacks), or from poor families (whites), and given contracts to work for years in Northern factories to hopefully earn their eventual freedom. Ben Franklin and his maternal grandmother were both once apprentice workers. She married the man who held her contract. Ben Franklin escaped to Philadelphia (breaking his contract and the laws). The only differences between this and outright slavery were the legal papers and the idea of possible freedom some day. Of course, because of the working conditions, few ever lived long enough to be free. This practice continued long after slavery was abolished. Dwight Stewart (W5NET) http://www.qsl.net/w5net/ |
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