Saying that the United States invaded and conquered the Confederate States because slavery is awful is tantamount to suggesting that the English invaded and conquered Scotland because Haggis is disgusting.
Both are repulsive (one morally, the other physically), but neither provoked the loss of life that resulted from either invasion. Both invasions, by the way, were acts of naked aggression made by empire builders.
My brother likes haggis.
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I wasnt inferring slavery was why they started the war i would say that it was the basic economic debate that was raging at the time that did so. What i'am saying though, is that slavery was part of that economic debate and also played on other aspects of the northern persons psyche to culminate in helping rise tensions between the two sections and they were acts of agression and empire building.
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