Civil War: the Untold Truth

The Civil War started in 1861, and though it was more than a century ago, there is still controversy and many questions arising about the subject. What were they really fighting over? Should the South have been able to succeed? What were the South's true reasons for succeeding? Was the North's only reason to go to war to free the slaves? Were Slaves truly treated as cruelly as we are to believe they were? Did the Abolitionists have other motives hidden behind tightly shut doors, which were not made public? These are only a few questions people want to know the answers to regarding the American's War against themselves. Some of these questions are hard to give a definite answer to, and say what is exactly is correct. History textbooks in the public schools, private schools, even homeschools, answer these questions, but are they really the truth? The textbooks are written in the North's point of view, the winners of the war. They are telling us what they want us to think the reasons for the war really were. But they might leave out little key parts that aren't beneficial to their view. Did the Northern industrialists want a war to end slavery? No, not to end slavery, but to end the South or, put more accurately, they wanted an end to the Southern power and influence in the Nation. They, or those members of the industrialist clique, who dominated the Republican Party then, were determined to dominate the country by whatever means; but slavery was too profitable for it to be ended until they could "bring off their grandiose plan of domination". There was no way they could have both the profits of slavery and domination of the nation; and domination was far more important. Forcing an end to slavery was the handiest method of destroying the South. The Industrialists did not originate the abolition crusade. That developed coincidentally and played into their hands as conflicting interests moved the two sections toward

Bibliography: War For What? By Francis W. Springer Copyright 1990, William M. Coats To Be A Slave By Julius Lester Copyright 1968, Scholastic Inc.