"Slavery was the primary, central, cause of secession"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

It's called critical thinking, something schools are supposed to teach. Appeal to authority is a fallacy my logic-seeking friend. Verify the source.

Appeal by consensus....and that's only after someone refuses to accept the facts.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Appeal by consensus....and that's only after someone refuses to accept the facts.

Another fallacy.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Nasa lost the source, or did they find it?

What?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

What?

It was a joke. Steven mentioned the moon landings... you were referring to sources, and officially the original NASA tapes have been lost for 40 years (though they may have been found them recently)

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I was taught something a little different:

1) Much had to do with who was to be the preferred trading partner, France or Britain. The north still had a hard-on for the British, who sought to acquire raw goods from the southern states, and return them as manufactured goods without being charged a high tariff. Northern manufacturers would rather exploit the southern farmers themselves without the competition.

2) Southerners wanted to expand into the west in a quest for fertile farmlands not infested with malaria and not rendered infertile by the nutrient robbing cotton. New farming methods required even more land to provide the same yields.

3) The northern states wanted to limit the spread of slavery into the western territories, and the acquisition of California and Texas territories exacerbated the problem. (Missouri Compromise).

4) Kansas-Nebraska Act. Anarchy at its best, and a preview of things to come.

5) The growth of the Abolitionist Movement and its key role in the election of Abraham Lincoln. Seven states, South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, seceded before Lincoln even took office.

[Dan and Judy 614]

typical liberal #######. tell a lie enough times and people might believe it.

the civil was was all about state's rights to seceed. the secessions occured because of punitive export tarrifs that a northern controlled congress had levied between 1830 and 1855 on unprocessed goods including cotton and tobacco. taxes in the south were unfairly high, so southern states left the union. enough said.

slavery in USA was extremely rare until the invention of the cotton gin in the early 1830's. prior to that slaves were household servants and garden workers to the wealthy, and of no use on the farm.

In South Carolina in 1720, about 65% of the population consisted of slaves.^[25] Planters (defined as those who held 20 slaves or more) used slaves to cultivate commodity crops. Backwoods subsistence farmers, a later wave of settlers in the 18th century, seldom owned slaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

[Zero Sum 305]

Not a whole lot of room for more than one cause is there?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Not a whole lot of room for more than one cause is there?

Like most things, it is often a Comedy of Errors.

[justashooter 430]

In South Carolina in 1720, about 65% of the population consisted of slaves.^[25] Planters (defined as those who held 20 slaves or more) used slaves to cultivate commodity crops. Backwoods subsistence farmers, a later wave of settlers in the 18th century, seldom owned slaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States

out of context and out of time. the numbers after the revolution were very different. there just weren't that many people in south carolina in 1720, so population measurements taken in that time were irrelevant.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Here is a better measurement 475,000 total people in the colonies in 1720s - slaves were 75000 of them or about 16%.