An Alternative to the Civil War?

[ThePenguinLibertarian]

Three words: The Cotton Gin

Once again, the free market provides where the government fails.

the free market also provided a slave substitute called share croppers.

 

[Tywysog Cymru]

If the South didn't secede over slavery, what did it secede over? I don't like the Union but I can't think of any noble cause the South wanted to leave the nation over.