by JDHURF » Thu Dec 27, 2012 11:40 pm
The Civil War was about slavery and f**k else. There was incredible social unrest about slavery and whether new states and territories would be slave states or free states. In Kansas, "Bleeding Kansas" as it was later to be called, abolitionists migrated to the state with ample arms in supply. Skirmishes and border wars were fought. True-blue-revolutionary abolitionists like John Brown were splitting skulls with broadswords. It was events such as these, conspicuously and indisputably centered upon slavery and its abolition, that forced The Civil War.
All of that horseshit about "states rights" is the rationalization of traitors and racists. Living in Oklahoma, I am damn well tired of hearing about it.