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    I don’t really disagree with anything you said, I still say that it all boils down to “slavery” as the (root) cause.

    The war was caused by the federal government refusing to […]

    Inaction isn’t the “cause” of an event, so what was the action?

    I’d say: Providing (to runaway former slaves) the same safety and protections everyone else was already getting from the state (ex. Wisconsin).

    What “actions” do you think were the cause of the civil war?

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        You keep saying that the war wasn’t started over slavery because this that and the other, then immediately follow with cause being due to the south seceding, the reasoning for their secession was due to the fact that the federal government would not enforce southern slavery laws.

        So, by your own reasoning slavery was SPECIFICALLY the reason the war was started. Details matter, but what you are dealing in is called pedantry which only succeeds in confusing the issue in favor of those who support slavery.

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        And I think people use this whole argument to confuse the issue.

        While the federal government wasn’t the “savior of the slaves” in the way that it is often explained in elementary school, that does describe well the dichotomy of morality that existed at that time between slavers and non.