That sounds more familiar...thanx Ian. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Ian Skinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 4/8/2010 6:58 AM, Scott Stroz wrote: >> I may be wrong, but I thought that slavery did nto become an issue in >> the Civil War until after the Emancipation Proclamation - which, if >> memory serves me correctly - only freed the slaves in the states that >> had seceded. >> > > Slavery was not a 'cause' of the war. But it was a large auxiliary factor. > The overall reason for the states that succeeded was over States rights > versus Federal rights. But the main right being debated at the time, > was the right to allow slavery or not. > > > >
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