On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 3:07:46 PM UTC-10, John Kuthe wrote:
> On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 12:41:38 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
> > On Monday, June 22, 2020 at 2:57:30 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
> > > dsi1 wrote:
> > > > We visited the International Slavery Museum when we were in Liverpool. It was interesting and moving. The Brits abolished slavery about 30 years before the Yanks did. The difference, of course, is that they didn't have a civil war over the matter,
> > >
> > > Again, the US Civil War wasn't about slavery.
> > > The North was treating the South unfairly with economics.
> > > They chose to leave the union. That's what the civil war
> > > was all about.
> > >
> > > I suspect Lincoln abolished slavery later just as pay backs
> > > to the South for trying to divide us into two countries.
> >
> > Some folks like to call the Civil War the "War for State's Rights." Well okay.
>
> The Civil War was about the right of states to secede from the union. South said yes, north said no. War ensued.
>
> John Kuthe...

Well, that's how losers of the conflict like to see it. Fine, they can see it any way they wish. What's it to me? Nuttin'.