The Civil War Was Not a War for Slavery

This video is a rebuttal to Prager University video that falsely claims the Civil War was about slavery. The reason slavery is the popular justification for the Civil War is that it’s the only way to excuse the gross number of illegal actions taken by Lincoln for engaging in a war to prevent the Confederacy from having the right to govern themselves. The Civil War was an illegal war, carried out by the North to retain America’s biggest cash crops: cotton and tobacco, and to justify it, the North came up with one of the great lies of history.