Quote Originally Posted by El Kabong View Post
January 1, 1863 the Emancipation freed 100% of the slaves in Confederate states, in 1864 Confederate states themselves were abandoning slavery.....in 1865 the Union banned slavery.


But the "Civil" War was about slavery you say? It certainly wasn't because that 75% of the United States' taxes came from the Southern states.......certainly wasn't about THAT. I mean people NEVER fight over taxes........(Revolution, Whiskey Rebellion, Maryland Bond protest 1843, California Foreign miners tax resistance of 1850, John McErny's shadow government 1872-1879, San Elizaro Salt War, "Half-Breeds" in the Dakota's 1889...amongst many others)
There were still slaves in the south up until June 1865 as some slaveowners only let their slaves go free when the Union army turned up and enforced it.

Lyle, the states went to war to defend slavery. They issued proclamations stating why they went to war and they only mention slavery, nothing about taxes or anything else. It's there in their own words. And they had absolutely no intention of ending slavery -- again, in their own words they wanted it to last in perpetuity.

Taxes weren't actually an issue because southern lawmakers had actually written the tariff of 1857 which set the nations tax levels. The rates were lower for the south than at any time since 1806.