I find it funny how the confederate flag is identified as "pro-slavery".

The inroads to civil war were due to total lack of southern state reps in congress. Congress made laws that forbid cotton sales to Europe, fixed prices (way below what the materials would bring overseas), this meant the southern states only option was to send good to the textile mills in the northeast states (where all the congress members were from).

The southern states viewed this as "taxation without representation", the very reason that lead to war against England (what difference does it make if the oppressors are overseas or here).

Due to the heavy influx of European immigrants into the northeastern US at the time, the textile mill owners had 10s of thousands of skilled European people willing to work at low rates (this lead to many large mill owners seeing no need for slave labor, and releasing them).

The common misconception that Lincoln was a "great emancipator" is just that, a misconception.

Look at the facts,

1) The Emancipation Proclamation was produced almost 3 years after the start of the Civil War.

2) The document ONLY applied to slaves held by states posing a threat to the union... President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

3) Funny how he only released slaves in "rebellious" states, seems he was trying to "break the back" of southern states (his opposition), but Union slave owners were free to continue the practice. Hell, even slaves in southern states that were under Union control were EXEMPT FROM FREEDOM!!!

Any statement that the Civil War was fought over slavery is retarded, Lincoln "switched the script" to slavery years after the start. What happens to recent presidents popularity when they redefine why they went to war?

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