How Slavery Caused the American Civil War

We are starting a new Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the history of the American Civil War. In this first episode, we will cover the reasons that caused the American Civil War, and will talk about the effects of slavery, tariffs, taxation, expansion, the election of Lincoln, Bloody Kansas and much more showing the reasons why a number of states seceded from the Union and declared the Confederate States of America leading to a long and bloody conflict. The series will also focus on all the major battles of the war, including Fort Sumter, Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Sherman's March, Appomattox Station, and more.

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[KingsandGenerals]

To make it clear: the war happened because of the slavery. However, there are always factors surrounding the main reason, and in this video we made an attempt to explain these reasons that were borne from the practice of slavery. For example, if you ask us why the WW2 happened, we will say that Hitler's invasions were the main reason. But when we make a video, we have to mention other factors (Japan's expansion, weakness of the League of Nations, animosity between Stalin and the West, Stalin's ambitions, economic crash, revanchism, and so on and so forth).
Slavery was a despicable practice and it had to be eradicated. American slavery was worse due to its essentialist nature. South fought to keep slavery. I think, we should have underlined a few more aspects, but, overall, the video starts with slavery and it ends with slavery - our position is clear. Anyone who tries to build a false narrative off our video would have done it no matter what we had said in the video.

[JohnnyElRed]

Poor John Adams. His greatest fear ended up becoming the biggest truth about the USA system.

[jessejohnson]

For everyone scrolling for controversial comments, I'm going to save you some time. It's just page after page of people saying there's going to be controversial comments.

[KaterKarlo]

Kings and Generals: "without further ado, let's dive straight into the American Civil War"
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[WaterShowsProd]

The fact that this war is still "contentious" and "controversial" nearly 160 years later shows just how much unresolved baggage The United States is still carrying from this conflict.

[Ryan-rzx]

Hot damn the production quality on these documentaries just keeps getting better

[DestroyerOfSense]

Probably the best quote I've ever heard about the relationship between slavery and the American Civil War: "Slavery was behind everything that caused the war." As in, there were technically a myriad of causes for the war, but slavery was behind all of them. As well as being a major, direct cause in its own right, slavery was the "metacause", the cause of all the other causes.

I heard the quote in an excellent History channel documentary about Gettysburg. Sadly, I don't remember the speaker's name.

[Reworkd]

You are one of the few channels not only covering military history, but the socio-economic conditions behind it, please never stop making these amazing videos

[Blalack]

I was born, raised and still live in the south. My family were among the poor people scratching out a living in the woods. But this is a sad and unfortunate deal. I wish we could have ended slavery without a war. It seems like those same rich, elite aristocrats who owned and fought to keep slaves are still at it - they just moved and changed tactics.

[carltonbauheimer]

A lot of comments about how crazy the comment section is going to be, but no actual crazy comments.

I am disappoint.

[deltapapa]

Thomas Jefferson: “What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment, be deaf to all those motives whose powers supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.”

[Tahkaullus]

So, to simplify:
"The Issue of Slavery is solved and it shall never come up again!"
<Applause&Smileys>
*A Few Years Later, It Came Up Again*

[anarcho-boulangistllamaent]

Worth pointing out that the Morrill tariff wouldnt have passed the Senate if the Southern States hadnt seceded.

[jjtuunf]

I didn't know that native americans also owned slaves. Fascinating history, I must say. The world is way more complex then one would think.

[freddovich]

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[radiofreeastrocast]

With the way kings and generals do their thing, if we had another golden record project, archive this channel for all eternity.

[bart]

As a European I don't know that much about American history so I really appreciate this video👍

[BygoneChina]

Taiping Rebellion in China was at the same time as the American civil war, and in many ways was similar (established north vs. insurrectionist south). Britain's policy towards both was linked. At first, the British were fearful that the American civil war would cause a significant disruption to their trade (which it did), and so they were seriously considering intervening to end the war and reestablish trade. But many felt uneasy about doing so because the culture and history was so close to Britains. Yet they didn't have the same reservations towards the Chinese though (who were so far removed from the British), and so the British chose to intervene in the Chinese civil war and restore Chinese trade, to make up for the trade that was lost due to the American civil war.

[nathantallar]

Would be interesting if he did a video on the Cherokee that served in the Confederate Army

[Rundstedt]

_"Yes, politics was important. Yes, economics were important. Yes, social issues and states’ rights were important. _*_But when you get to the core of why all these things were important, it was slavery!"_* - Bob Sutton, chief historian for the National Park Service. "Atlanta Examiner, " December 11, 2010 as reprinted in "George Mason University's History News Network"