he reasons for this slavery only theme being wrong has been hashed out and disproven all over this thread by multiple people from multiple sources.
I haven't got there yet but I seriously doubt Tindall and Shi advance slavery as the only cause for secession, neither have I.
I would also guess that most every general history book used in every university in America has, since well before the 1980's, said pretty much the same thing.
Could it be your particular interpretations represent a minority view, even among Civil War Historians?
That four billion bale (US cotton exports ca. 1860) elephant in the corner of the room has got to be pretty hard to ignore.
Birdwatcher
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
