WHAT WAS THE CIVIL WAR ABOUT?
It was about the right of slave holding states to slave labor, specifically African slave labor.
"The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states." James McPherson
"The Civil War started because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of the national government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become states." James McPherson