Devine, James wrote:
Do you think that the US North's defense of the Union against the
South was really against slave society? It had the effect of
destroying that society (or at least of converting slaves into debt
peons), but the war was about defense of the union, disputes about
Carrol seems to have correctly distinguised between a war against a slave
society and a war against slavery. The North believed that it could not
compete effectively within a slave society, which depended upon low
tariffs and unfree labor. I found the passage that I posted interesting
because
