User blog comment:Daxus Inferno/There Are Two Types of People.../@comment-24564179-20130807030534/@comment-32656-20130811100447

Sigh...

Yes, Guns, you are very wrong.

The secession declarations do not mention anything that is not slave-related.

That most people didn't want abolition is more or less irrelevant.

To put that into context: the numbers I used were from the vote for the 13th amendment, which banned slavery, with the southern seats being those used in the 1860 elections. And it is very obvious that support for abolition was at a new high then.

Yes, I have read that book - and seen the movie, done research on slavery in that era in the past, and looked at actual documents from it.

The ACW article on wikipedia agrees with what I am saying.

Historians, for that matter, also agree with what I am saying.

And as I have noted before, many times, school textbooks are not at all accurate.

Actually, Imp, it's rather unlikely that it would really have changed. It is very likely that the CSA would have broken up into little slave-owning "banana republics" within a decade of them "winning" the war.

Would it have gone away eventually? Probably. Taken longer? Yes.

For that matter, you can make the same argument about time with SA, Imp. And they were still treated better in SA than in the South, imo.