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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5790741" data-attributes="member: 65823">Yankee: The war was about slavery.Me: No, if there would of been no war slavery would have persisted, if the South would have agreed to back down from secession slavery would have persisted, in every scenario slavery remained because the issue wasn’t about preserving slavery because no one threatened slavery. The North only wanted to keep southerners with their slaves out of the territories.There was no war to stop slavery. The North only fought to stop secession and secession was about the constitutional rights of Southern slave holders being broken and ignored and of the North’s effort to deny the South access to the nation via the territories, they wished to fence the South in and that is a sort of illegal imprisonment of people and their rights under the Constitution.The war was about the North’s desire to dominate the nation.</blockquote>