Slavery & the Civil War

Mr November · 03-01-2012, 06:36 PM

I think Tuna and Mr Dave are on to something. You can't separate the Southern way of life and Slavery during the time of the Civil War. The war might have been about any number of other factors, but because the south had naturally developed into an area dependent on slave labour, any one of those factors would have likely been deeply defined by slavery.

Unknown Soldier · 03-02-2012, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr November

I think Tuna and Mr Dave are on to something. You can't separate the Southern way of life and Slavery during the time of the Civil War. The war might have been about any number of other factors, but because the south had naturally developed into an area dependent on slave labour, any one of those factors would have likely been deeply defined by slavery.

I mentioned something similiar to this on an earlier post, slavery was the southern way of life it built their economy which was strictly agricultural based and it was totally in contrast to the much richer industralized north. Was war inevitable when the North decreed slavery an abomination and needed to be eradicated? Or was it inevitable when the southern states seceded from the Union?

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Mr November Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Halifax, Canada Posts: 429	I think Tuna and Mr Dave are on to something. You can't separate the Southern way of life and Slavery during the time of the Civil War. The war might have been about any number of other factors, but because the south had naturally developed into an area dependent on slave labour, any one of those factors would have likely been deeply defined by slavery.