thomblake comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 14 April 2010 08:43:03PM 2 points [-]

The thing is, the War between the States really truly was about slavery, nothing else.

I am suspicious of any monocausal theory of historical events. Surely slavery is by far the most important cause of the war. But there were a lot of other reasons.