It was going away. And I never said it was not a factor,
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I said it was not the reason. If the war was about slavery why did Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only free slaves in the Confederacy?
The civil war, like all wars, was about power. The northern industrial states were assuring that they retained control of the resource rich southern States who were beginning to develop partnerships with European Nations instead of northern states. Textile Industry in the North could not continue to grow without resources from the south.