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Ms. Clio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 05:12 PM
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249. Well, that explains it
"Being raised in the south we learned much of what I noted above in grammer school, that is why I believe the civil war was begun because of states rights, not slavery."

If you attended a halfway decent college or university anytime in the last 20 years, you would know that was completely wrong.

Why did all the states that seceded specifically claim that they were doing so in order to protect and preserve slavery? Have you read any primary source documents from the period--the newspapers, the secession declarations, etc? Why did the Confederate Constitution specifically bar any laws that would interfere with slavery?

The only "rights" that Southerners cared about before the war was their "right" to own human beings as property and take them wherever they pleased.
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