User talk:Ghosty-grey

In the article on the American civil war, the south's decision to secceed and the war are attributed to slavery, this while being a cornerstone of some of the feelings was not the cause of the war. In fact Both sides had slavery as an ongoing institution, and Lincolns later emancipation proclamation only freed slaves held in the southern states that at the time he had no jurisdiction over. The causes of the civil war were economic based around the Northern states deciding to have southern plantations turned into factory and subsistence farming, a raising of extra taxes on the produce of the southern states. And Political, many northern politicians wanted all states powers transferring to centralized government, which was in breach of the state sovereignty clauses most states joined with. This article is misleading, it gives the impression that the Northern states were slave free and that southern states were slave full at the start of the war, the facts are different, By 1860 slavery in the south was fading fast as it was being seen as unprofitable and a great number of former owners had decided to free their slaves out of conscience, these included many of the most prominent men of the confederacy. By contrast those the majority of slaves held in northern states would see the end of the war as owned men/women/children. Slavery in the Northern states did not disappear until AFTER the death of Lincoln. It is still argued that even after slavery was abolished in all the states, many former slaves were still owned only at this time they were known as Bonded workers, paid for their work but for all intents and purposes owned by the companies that bonded them.