Slavery and the Civil War

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This paper contends that there is a direct relationship between the institution of slavery and the American Civil War and that slavery was one of many economic and political rifts that existed between the southern and northern states. It attempts to determine whether slavery was indeed a primary cause of the civil war or whether it was the failure of its legal protection by the central government that left the south vulnerable and the north at a disadvantage.

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"When seeking a valid and holistic argument for the causes of the civil war one must look deeper and truly analyze the reasons why governments and people usually make changes, and they are rarely altruistic and progressive. Politics and economics are the usual impetuous for social change, and human rights and a better world are usually adjuncts to such issues. In the case of the reasons for the civil war, in short of seeming to simplistic the issue was not so much the condition of the slave, the institution of slavery but the economics of it. Though slavery is the commonly understood impetus for the war, it is not the only reason, as it should be viewed more along the lines of seeing slavery as one of many economic and political rifts that existed between the southern and northern states."

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