www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKMTu1GDi_w
To put this into proper perspective: Less than one percent of the adult population of the antebellum South owned slaves. Most Southerners could not have cared less about slavery, but they overwhelmingly felt that their "rights" were being usurped by a despotic section of the nation with which they could not identify.
Remember, in 1860 this was still a nation of sections and a nation of individual states. The South was isolated geographically, economically, and culturally from the North. In essence, there were really two separate nations comprising the United States of America. An armed clash was inevitable, and slavery was not really injected into the mix until 1863, after Lincoln's partial "Emancipation".
ENDED 150 years ago April..
[Love that song and Yellow Rose of Texas]
To put this into proper perspective: Less than one percent of the adult population of the antebellum South owned slaves. Most Southerners could not have cared less about slavery, but they overwhelmingly felt that their "rights" were being usurped by a despotic section of the nation with which they could not identify.
Remember, in 1860 this was still a nation of sections and a nation of individual states. The South was isolated geographically, economically, and culturally from the North. In essence, there were really two separate nations comprising the United States of America. An armed clash was inevitable, and slavery was not really injected into the mix until 1863, after Lincoln's partial "Emancipation".
ENDED 150 years ago April..
[Love that song and Yellow Rose of Texas]