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Originally Posted by kane
At that time the US was very much an agricultural power and we sold a ton of crop like tobacco and cotton. Most of these cash crops were grown in the south, yet the leadership of country was based in the north. Those in the south were getting sick of paying taxes on their crops to pay for those in north and that led to the beginning of the secession. The author even points out that slavery wasn't presented as one of the reasons for the war until about three years into the war when the popularity of the war started to lag in the north.
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I don't think that's completely true or else the South wouldn't have went broke halfway into the war. Well, the North cut off all their supply routes. The North had all the industrial centers, the South - like always - was clinging to an obsolete way of life. The way society was set up in the Antebellum South was close to medieval feudalism. You had a couple extremely wealthy plantation owners, everybody else was basically serfs. And then the slaves. The South needed the North and vice versa. What's funny about that quote is that all the major confederate generals, even the president of the confederacy, were educated in the north.