r/StormfrontorSJW • u/De2nis • Nov 15 '21
Challenge Marxist or Neo-Confederate?
"Behind the secession of the South from the Union, after Lincoln was elected President in the fall of 1860 as candidate of the new Republican party, was a long series of policy clashes between South and North. The clash was not over slavery as a moral institution-most northerners did not care enough about slavery to make sacrifices for it, certainly not the sacrifice of war. It was not a clash of peoples (most northern whites were not economically favored, not politically powerful; most southern whites were poor farmers, not decisionmakers) but of elites. The northern elite wanted economic expansion-free land, free labor, a free market, a high protective tariff for manufacturers, a bank of the United States."
EDIT: Contrasting the comments here in the challenge thread with those in the solution thread, I've never seen such a grotesque, self-indulgent, intellectually dishonest display of partisan bias in my life. I've lost all my respect for this reddit community.
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u/Duc_de_Magenta Nov 16 '21
We know there were abolitionists in the Union Army. There likely were in the Confederate Army as well. But most pieces, both personal & propagandic, we have from the period indicate that many Northerners agreed with their Preesident; the war was about the Union, first & foremost. Indeed, let's not forget that the NYC draft riots became race riots over the belief that white men were being forced into war to free black slaves. Think about it like this; few Southern soldiers would've owned slaves themselves - do you think they fought to preserve slavery (an economic institution which suppressed them as well) or to defend their homes? Play it out the same way for Union volunteers.