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<blockquote data-quote="Samuel S" data-source="post: 129457435" data-attributes="member: 1754664">Slavery was the foundation of the economic system the South sought to perpetuate. The economic freedom the South wished to maintain was the freedom to own, buy and sell&nbsp; other people. Those are&nbsp; economic reasons. The abolition of slavery cost slaveowners what had theretofore been property and they did not receive compensation. Additionally, the transformation of the labor market made the large landholdings (which are the basis of wealth in an agrarian society) less valuable because it either cost more to grow crops when workers&nbsp; had to be paid or&nbsp; the landowner received less of the crops grown when they only got a share and the tenant farmers received a share. That's why the Plantation economy collapsed following the war. The economic system of the South was not viable without slavery, so saying the war was fought for economic reasons is true but very misleading unless one acknowledges that slavery was necessary for that economic system to survive.&nbsp;&nbsp; The racial component would be more easily &quot;euphemized away&quot; if white people could have&nbsp; legally been owned as slaves in antebellum America, but that was not the case.&nbsp; The South fought because its leaders believed that if it did not racial-based slavery would be ended, sooner rather than later,&nbsp; and it did not want that to happen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Samuel S, post: 129457435, member: 1754664"] Slavery was the foundation of the economic system the South sought to perpetuate. The economic freedom the South wished to maintain was the freedom to own, buy and sell other people. Those are economic reasons. The abolition of slavery cost slaveowners what had theretofore been property and they did not receive compensation. Additionally, the transformation of the labor market made the large landholdings (which are the basis of wealth in an agrarian society) less valuable because it either cost more to grow crops when workers had to be paid or the landowner received less of the crops grown when they only got a share and the tenant farmers received a share. That's why the Plantation economy collapsed following the war. The economic system of the South was not viable without slavery, so saying the war was fought for economic reasons is true but very misleading unless one acknowledges that slavery was necessary for that economic system to survive. The racial component would be more easily "euphemized away" if white people could have legally been owned as slaves in antebellum America, but that was not the case. The South fought because its leaders believed that if it did not racial-based slavery would be ended, sooner rather than later, and it did not want that to happen. [/QUOTE]

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