Observations on ‘The Civil War’
In most wars, a phony moral issue has to be dreamed up to get people to fight, and historians tend to perpetuate the myths to justify their side’s engagement in a murderous conflict.
The Civil War was no different. There was an economic deadlock between the industrial North and the agrarian South. The war was fought not for any noble aim on either side but for selfish control of the nation and for materialism--the ascendancy of one section over the other.
Even though it was England and the Northern bankers and shipping interests that transported slaves to our land, the slaves were ill-equipped for the severity of Northern winters and they fit in with the demand for more field hands in the South (generated by the cotton industry).
BEN AUSTIN
San Marino
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