More Proof the Civil War was About Slavery
In 1860, southern slave owners began preparations for the eventual election of Abraham Lincoln. Despite Lincoln’s shortcomings he was viewed by the slave owners as the man who believed in “Negro equality.” Lincoln was the president that would stop the expansion of slavery and this would be the reason to leave the Union. It turned into a movement for secession in Charleston, South Carolina that was called the 1860 Association. This group of slave-minded plantation owners printed thousands of copies of pamphlets that incited waves of racial hatred at the prospect of slavery being ended. Their short book was titled, “The Doom of Slavery in the Union.” In early November of 1860, crowds of crazed racists marched in the streets of Charleston angry that Lincoln had won the election. They carried lanterns and torches and fired off fireworks. Meanwhile, a racist newspaper carried the announcement that Lincoln had won as if it were a “funeral notice.”
South Carolina would vote to secede from the Union and rebel because they feared slaves would be freed. The newspapers tried to hide the fact that they were concerned about slavery by declaring that there would be a loss of “liberty,” and that they would be “robbed” of their “property.” The word property was the code word for slaves. They also couched their racist intentions with a bevy of propaganda that was designed to rally up white supremacists to make them think they were fighting for “honor and liberty.” Their “liberty” was liberty to own human beings and their honor was to sell the idea of white supremacy. The war to protect slavery was thus ignited. We already know that the Articles of Secession for the southern slave owners explicitly said that the war was about protecting Black slavery and opposing the abolition of it. They admitted this in their own words!
Before 1860, slave owners were already beating the drumbeat of war after the abolitionist John Brown raided Harper’s Ferry, Virginia to liberate slaves. Southern slave owning states organized militias (racist citizen soldiers) to prepare for the struggle to come. A Georgia senator was quoted as saying, “The Constitution of this country recognizes my title to the slave within my state.” There were many more admissions by the southern slave owners and pro-slavery politicians to absolutely prove that slavery was the central cause of the Civil War. They were getting rich not just from “King cotton,” but from slave picked cotton. The wealth that cotton could produce cannot be separated from the hands that picked it. There was plenty of hatred generated in the halls of southern legislatures and in the federal congress. In April of 1860, when the Charleston delegates called a convention, it was debated that a platform should be endorsed that would call on the federal government to adopt a slave code for territories that were not yet part of the United States. When this did not happen Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, and yes, Texas, walked out and boycotted the convention.
Fake history has been a big problem in the country for years. Southern slave owners were experts with big lies. Even to this day, historical lies are spread around like a virus to excuse racism. Slaves were called “property” and “servants” to hid the ugly and brutal institution of slavery. The role of slavery was hidden in terms like “State’s Rights,” and an economic cloud of fakery was used to hide the hands that picked the cotton. Read it and weep, we are “Woke.”
