Viral Civil War Video at Prager University

I have viewed Professor Ty Seidule's video on Slavery as the Cause of the Civil War that was posted on the Prager University website, and I applaud him for having summarized as accurately as possible in a five minute video for a popular audience so complex a historical issue. Any fair analysis of the facts leads to the conclusion that slavery was the root cause of the Civil War. Anyone who believes otherwise in this day and age either has not acquainted himself with the facts objectively or is pursuing an agenda that puts belief above the facts. America in 1860 was not America in 2015 only without cellphones, the internet and automobiles. Although there were similarities with life today, attitudes and prejudices were very different. The world was very different. The Civil War would set America on a different road – President Lincoln described it as a "new birth of freedom" – although for many in this country the effects of that freedom would not start to be felt until late in the twentieth century and, in part, aspects of that freedom remains only a distant dream today. I explore the nature of the country before the Civil War in Four Score and Four: America in 1860. In the book I describe the culture, the agriculture, the industry, the media, the technology, the arts and the politics of the day – all of it as context to help the reader understand more fully what the times were like and why the war occurred. I am able to cover a bit more ground in several hundred pages than Professor Seidule can in a five minute video, but I come to the same conclusion. If you want to see the evidence that leads to the conclusion, I invite you to take a look.