THIS is what the Union Vets FOUGHT for

[@adrianlynch847]

This guy taught me so much through the Great American courses, I cannot recall his name.

[@johngregoryhouse]

This country paid one hell of a price for the sin of slavery. It is sad that so many want to keep the hatred going.

[@michaelbrickley2443]

And many call themselves Christian…..sad..:..only love can wipe away the hate.

[@johnpublic793]

Agreed

[@user-kg8zi1bn2u]

I guess that’s why segregation and discrimination was rampant across both sides

[@cgpcgp3239]

Revolutionary War with British. We celebrate war and teach accurate history. Britian is our close ally. Two brutal wars with Germany. We teach accurate history. Germany is our close ally. Brutal war with Japan. We teach accurate history. Japan is a close ally. Only the south refuses to accept accurate teaching of civil war it started to maintain slavery and think teaching it is divisive. We look back at revolution war, WW1, WW11 every year yet south wants to forget civil war. Some southern states have general lee and confederate’s day holidays. Maybe the people who find saying slavery was cause of the civil war painful should do the work to come to terms with it. You didn’t own slaves. You didn’t fight in civil war to maintain slavery. It’s not a reflection on you. The shame of fighting to maintain slavery is not your shame. Let it go.

[@brianhannan8030]

Hell yeah 😎 Freedom and right 👍👍

[@zacharyschafer4597]

Cool Lincoln at the time made different points.

[@DonkeyDoormatDrive]

Lincoln was drafting what would later be titled the Emancipation Proclamation during his Election Campaign. Don't get it twisted Zach.

[@zacharyschafer4597]

@@DonkeyDoormatDrive oh his original draft... The one that would have returned slaves and freemen back to Africa? You are aware the emancipation proclamation only freed the slaves in southern states, slavery was still occuring in northern territory

[@jerryhipp2298]

If it was about slavery why was the slaves in Texas set free in June 1865 and in the north December 1865? The fact the only part slavery played for the north was to stop it in the south as a means to stop the economy. By stopping the economy the south fell due to lack of supply not lack of fight. Same reason Germany lost in the east which allowed the east to put an end to that mess. Only a little more than 1% owned slaves so it didn’t require a war to stop it took the rich to lose money .

[@scarecrow953]

Maybe that's what they said after the war was over and the new history books were written. But, I bet that wasn't the thinking when they first went to battle. The war in the north was fought for reunification. The southern soldiers fought for separation and the fact they hated Yankees. The slavery issue didn't come along until Lincoln needed to undermine the south war making ability. Which didn't happen until much later with the Emancipation Proclamation.

[@cgpcgp3239]

The succession articles southern states wrote clearly stated slavery was the reason. Revolutionary War with British. We celebrate war and teach accurate history. Britian is our close ally. Two brutal wars with Germany. We teach accurate history. Germany is our close ally. Brutal war with Japan. We teach accurate history. Japan is a close ally. Only the south refuses to accept accurate teaching of civil war it started to maintain slavery and think teaching it is divisive. Maybe the people who find saying slavery was cause of the civil war painful should do the work to come to terms with it. You didn’t own slaves. You didn’t fight in civil war to maintain slavery. It’s not a reflection on you. The shame of fighting to maintain slavery is not your shame. Let it go.

[@scarecrow953]

@@cgpcgp3239 I guess you're the "accurate teacher". Also, I guess you didn't grow up in the south with the finger pointed at you. The issues between North and South started shortly after the constitution was ratified. The issues were economics, politics, and cultures. There was already evidence of a movement in the south to abolish slavery. The Virginia state house had already drafted legislation to transition from a slavery based economy to a labor based. The tobacco states would quickly join followed by the cotton states. The transition would take a great deal of cooperation but as one Virginia states said, the north has been too belligerent to even negotiate with. The south was afraid Lincoln would then outlaw slavery and would destroy the souths economy and fear of black retribution too. They succeeded because of this fear.

[@cgpcgp3239]

@@scarecrow953 State articles of succession reason for succession was slavery. You admit cause of civil war south’s fear Lincoln would abolish slavery. The cause was slavery. Slavery was deeply embedded in southern economic and social culture. Poor whites fought to maintain social hierarchy with slaves at the bottom. The eagerly participated in subjugation and exploitions of free black people after the war. If the south hadn’t created Jim Crow and lost cause narrative we wouldn’t be here today.

[@kennethgambill4751]

No, the North's cause was preservation of the Union. The Destruction of Slavery wasn't anywhere on the radar. 1. Delware a union State still had slaves until December 1865, that 8 months AFTER the civil War Ended. (April 9th, 1865) 2. The Emanicpation procilamtion only affected states and territories held to be in Rebellion, and was issued 3 years after the start of the Civil War. It didn't affect States loyal to the Union. The 13th amendment took effect in December 1865 (and didn't include the Southern States in ratification because most Southern States weren't a part of the Union. they had to pass several steps before being readmitted to the Union. Most wouldn't be readmitted to the Union until 1872.)

[@aaronfleming9426]

Keeping slavery out of the territories was a bedrock policy of the Republican party, and was widely considered to be the beginning of the end of slavery. The destruction of slavery was very much on the radar, which is why the slave states rebelled in the first place. Of course abolition was not the official policy of the Federal government, but any politically aware person in the country was certainly aware of Lincoln's "House Divided" speech.

[@kennethgambill4751]

@baronvonnembles I don't care if you came out of your momma with a mouth full of cornbread and collards. If that's the only response you have "The war was about slavery" and you assert your stance of authority because "I'm a born and Bred southerner" Then you clearly didn't pay attention to the events of the Civil War. I gave you historical facts and you refuse to believe them. and I'm a Tarheel...

[@QUINTBLINT]

This is true politically. But the guy in the video is talking about what the Union soldiers felt the war was about to them. Regardless of the strategic politics going on at higher levels. 😊

[@hankandlefty]

The reality was that the overwhelming majority of Union soldiers didn't give a tinker's dam about the slaves. All you have to do is read their letters and see how they treated the 'contrabands' once they were behind their lines. Even the GAR reunions excluded the 180000 Black Americans who fought on their side. This 'historian' ought to know better.

[@benbelden731]

😎👍

[@pging8328]

How can i see the full interview?

[@cszeller2614]

Lincoln wanted to save the Union. The South should not have attacked Fort Sumner, then Lincoln called to increase the size of the U. S. Army to prepare for a conflict and invasion of the South. Slavery was a growing issue, but thousands of Southerners did not fight for the preservation of slavery, but the preservation of their homes. When the North was losing the issue of slavery and emancipation was enhanced to continue a war that was growing unpopular.

[@dipper6797]

if the traitor militias werent fighting for the preservation of slavery, what was their reason for firing on fort sumpter and storming union armories? bored?

[@michaelliles2639]

Thats it Keep the division going Why move forward when we can keep looking back..

[@cgpcgp3239]

Revolutionary War with British. We celebrate war and teach accurate history. Britian is our close ally. Two brutal wars with Germany. We teach accurate history. Germany is our close ally. Brutal war with Japan. We teach accurate history. Japan is a close ally. Only the south refuses to accept accurate teaching of civil war it started to maintain slavery and think teaching it is divisive. We look back at revolution war, WW1, WW11 every year yet south wants to forget civil war. Some southern states have general lee and confederate’s day holidays. Maybe the people who find saying slavery was cause of the civil war painful should do the work to come to terms with it. You didn’t own slaves. You didn’t fight in civil war to maintain slavery. It’s not a reflection on you. The shame of fighting to maintain slavery is not your shame. Let it go.

[@Tommy-yg3rt]

Civil War started in 1861 does slavery act wasn't admitted until 1862 that's not what the war started out as

[@user-kz6jk6hk2o]

Go read the Confederate Constitution versus the Union Constitution. They are identical with 1 exception. Wanna guess what that exception was?

[@Badleo818]

This has the same energy as “it was about property” and then we have to go “oh yeah what property”.

[@bradanderson6275]

Barely literate drivel

[@jacoblind5390]

Read the declaration of causes of seceding states. These are the documents written by southern legislatures explain their decision to secede. They focus predominantly on slavery related issues because that’s why they did what they did.

[@bradanderson6275]

@@jacoblind5390 You can't tell them anything.

[@kiphoover8705]

Sorry, the Civil War was fought for the same reason. Every other war has been fought throughout history: economics. It’s all about: you have some thing I want and I’m coming to get it.

[@thederpyunicorn306]

No, it clearly wasn’t. Yes, the Confederacy wanted to keep slaves for their economy because they couldn’t imagine having to source workers for the plantations without paying them. From that perspective, it is about economics. Lincoln wanted to free the slaves, but he didn’t do anything rash because he knew it was an extremely difficult issue. As soon as he was elected however, the states seceded because they were afraid the Republicans would destroy their way of life. The South started the war, and it was only a couple years into it that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, stating that all slaves were to be set free. So any slave that Union troops found was to be set free. So the war initially was started because the Southern states were fearful of the Union destroying their ugly, evil, monstrous “way of life” and as the war went on, the Union’s focus shifted more to freeing the slaves. The aftermath of the war shows this. The Southern states were given absolutely no grace on the issue of slavery; it was over.

[@DonkeyDoormatDrive]

The SLAVE economy