SLAVERY AND THE OUTBREAK OF CIVIL WAR

The Relationship between Slavery and the Outbreak of Civil War

The Relationship between Slavery and the Outbreak of Civil War

The average ordinary people and even among some respected American and Polish historians, there is now convinced that the main cause of the outbreak of the American Civil War was the issue of slavery, namely the desire of residents and the U.S. Southern states to keep the institution of slavery. It is exaggerated to simplify matters. Sources of the bloodiest armed conflict in the history of the United States claimed the lives of about 620 thousand. A Union and Confederate soldier, were varied, and was not the main issue of slavery. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of this war is worth to duck the question of the fundamental causes of this event (Miller, 2000).

In the background, was a struggle between two types of economies, an industrial-abolitionist (North) and other land-slavery (South), which were totally different. Southerners said they did not fight only for slavery. After all, most Confederate soldiers were too poor to own slaves. The South was engaged in a war of independence to keep relations between North and South. The Confederates usually had the advantage of fighting on its own territory, and their morale was excellent. They were great soldiers, but were much fewer in number than the forces of North Union. After the war, some members of these items were persecuted as outlaws by the outrages committed during the war (Richards, 2000).

To wage the war, the South financed the export of cotton shipped to Europe and North, with the issuance of a new paper money, after rejecting Lincoln $ 5,000,000 loan at 12% interest offered byMoses Taylor. Both sides suspended some civil liberties, printed mountains of paper money and have forcibly recruited.

Lincoln's priority was to keep America as one country. After initial losses of the first battles, had to admit that the conduct of war, could only change it by making the war a battle against slavery and so could gain support for the Union both inside and outside. Consequently, on January 11th of 1863, the second year of war, issued the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all slaves in areas still controlled by the Confederacy. Even in the first half of the nineteenth century in the United States is not a debate about whether to abolish slavery, but to limit its territorial scope (Richards, 2000). However, even then prominent politicians ...