• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Saying it was about taxes leaves it open to “unfair taxes without representation”.

    America was treated better than any other colony due to how difficult the journey was.

    The rich (who mostly all smuggled various stuff including slaves) didn’t want to pay any taxes and convinced the poors that the rich paying taxes was enough for a lot of them to die in a brutal war, after which only 60% of white adult men could vote. No other races or women were able to.

    So yeah, I’ll take down votes in exchange for details. That shit often matters in history

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      6 months ago

      Saying it was about taxes leaves it open to “unfair taxes without representation”.

      Yeah? Well I’d argue that saying “slavery” leaves it open for “the strengthening the federal government in support of slavery.”

      So yeah, I’ll take down votes in exchange for details. That shit often matters in history

      I’m gonna presume to know something about the majority of internet strangers who’ve downvoted you: they didn’t downvote your details. They downvoted your assertion that the details challenge the idea that it was about slavery. It seems to us like you’re being overly pedantic.

      You’re not a martyr for truth, you’re a martyr for your personal opinion on the answer to the question “assuming the Civil War was principally about strengthening the federal government in support of slavery: is saying that the Civil War was about slavery a reasonable summation?”

      If instead of saying “it wasn’t about slavery bc …” you’d just said “for some added nuance, …”, then most of your downvotes would be from ppl challenging your information.

      As for that information, do you have any arguments against what GoodbyeBlueMonday or banneryear1868 have said? They are, so far, the only ppl to cite actual sources, and it apprears neither of them agree with your assertion that it wasn’t “about slavery”. And reading/listening to their sources doesn’t convince me of that, either.