Civil War, Avoidable or Inevitable? |
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 Nov 30 2004, 04:37 AM
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Does anyone know the points for both sides of the argument? Ive found tons on the inevitability factor but practically nothing on avoidability.
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Nov 30 2004, 06:48 AM
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 Dark Lord of McCandless Group: Member Posts: 2,226 Joined: May 2004 Member No: 16,761 |
There's plenty on avoidability... Almost every other country in the world freed its slaves without a Civil War... The only two that had a civil war over slavery I can think of off teh top of my head are the United States and Haiti.
If a compromise candidate like Stephen Douglas (Northern Democrat) or John Bell (Constitutional Union) won the election of 1860, the war could have been avoided. Slavery was already dying as an economic system. It would die out sooner or later, just like everywhere else (the last place in the world to have slavery was Brazil, where it was abolished in 1888--just twenty three years after us). |
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GreenTze Civil War Nov 30 2004, 04:37 AM
angel-roh wow this is a hard topic to answer, any easy way t... Dec 6 2004, 09:06 PM GreenTze ComradeRed- Wow, if it were only that easy. Thats ... Dec 6 2004, 09:42 PM aznxdreamer america just likes to have wars Dec 7 2004, 07:40 PM ComradeRed QUOTE(GreenTze @ Dec 6 2004, 9:42 PM)ComradeR... Dec 7 2004, 08:56 PM kryogenix ComradeRed: I think Cuba also abolished slavery AF... Dec 8 2004, 04:25 PM ComradeRed Cuba was a colony of Spain at the time, so wheneve... Dec 8 2004, 04:25 PM kryogenix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolitionism
Accordi... Dec 8 2004, 04:31 PM
ComradeRed I never said that the US was the last country to a... Dec 8 2004, 04:37 PM |
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