The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

The Civil War was started over economic issues, not slavery. The War was not popular in the North until the issue of slavery was added at a later time to turn it into a moral crusade.

The reason it is difficult is that we have been conditioned to laugh at conspiracy theories, and few people will risk public ridicule by advocating them. On the other hand, to endorse the accidental view is absurd. Almost all of history is an unbroken trail of one conspiracy after another. Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception.

Financial dependence on the state is the foundation of modern serfdom.

There is no time in American history in which there was more economic conflict between segments of the population than there was prior to the Civil War.

Rights and responsibilities are ... different sides of the same coin.