Board Thread:Roleplay Ideas/@comment-26295802-20160123161319/@comment-26863727-20160127013941

High Prince Imrahil wrote: My point is that the freeing of slaves was just another piece of Northerner propaganda to make people that would've sided with the Confederacy side with The Union. The war was about succession (which, I might add, was a right that the states were entitled to and promised when they joined the USA). Did slavery play a minor part in causing this succession? Yes! Was the war about slavery? No. NOTHING ever stated they had the right to secede. Read the fucking Constitution. You won`t find anything saying that states can leave the Union. It says citizens have a right to stand up to the government if it is overstepping its bounds, NOT to start their own country because they refuse to continue compromising.

You are correct that the war wasn`t about slavery. It was about the Confederacy firing on a ship that Lincoln had already informed them would be unarmed and then turning their guns on the fortress that had`t been resupplied for months the ship was carrying supplies to.