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To: Grainne who wrote (38653)	5/30/1999 10:52:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) of 108807

I know that an argument can be made that the Civil War was about all sorts of things besides whether men could own slaves, but certainly for the poor men at the front of the battle fighting for the Union, it was mostly about that. That's what I was taught in high school, lo these many decades ago. But that was in an era where high school was seen as a propaganda machine to hew young people into acceptable citizens, and where in the battle for minds between democracies and godless communism it was important for our society to mold our minds correctly. Since then I have done enough reading, and enough objective research has been done, that I am pretty well convinced that ending slavery had little if anything do with the start of the war, and that the Emancipation Proclamation was primarily not made to free slaves for their own sakes but to try to get the slaves to revolt and join the war the side of the North. The war was essentially about the northern states trying to impose their economic will on the South. Slavery was not, from what I now read, much of the reason that northerners went to war.

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