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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rick M" data-source="post: 219152" data-attributes="member: 4399"><p>It was about Economics, slavery had a dramatic impact on the economy of the south, while the north relished and benefited from industrialization. Slavery or lack there of had little impact on the north, it became a unification of the North's cause. The act of slavery was a secondary effect of the South's economic need for cheap labor and their lack of industrialization of the farming industry. Yes we can say it was about slavery, but it was primarily about the economic structure in the south (which of course depended on slavery). I do not believe that the war started over slavery, it became a rallying catalyst after the fact.</p></blockquote><p></p>