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To: Rockingham
Foolishly, the South chose secession and war. And not for control of tariff revenues but to protect slavery.

No they didn't. Slavery was not threatened in the US.

205 posted on 06/07/2023 2:33:59 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird; Rockingham
No they didn't. Slavery was not threatened in the US.

The information is readily available for people to look up and read. Takes all of a few seconds to find.

This argument does not hold water. It does not make sense to argue that the Confederate States *lied* in their own legislation that they wrote themselves and passed about why they were seceding and in their stump speeches, public speeches, editorials, etc. about why they seceded and about why they started the Civil War. Merely look up the raw material - read the secession resolutions. Read the editorials. Read the speeches. This information is not from a history book someone else wrote years later, some academic's claimed interpretation, etc. - these is their own words that they wrote, said, published, etc. themselves. And I believe them.

207 posted on 06/07/2023 2:57:03 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: FLT-bird; Rockingham
No they didn't. Slavery was not threatened in the US.

The information is readily available for people to look up and read. Takes all of a few seconds to find.

This argument does not hold water. It does not make sense to argue that the Confederate States *lied* in their own legislation that they wrote themselves and passed about why they were seceding and in their stump speeches, public speeches, editorials, etc. about why they seceded and about why they started the Civil War. Merely look up the raw material - read the secession resolutions. Read the editorials. Read the speeches. This information is not from a history book someone else wrote years later, some academic's claimed interpretation, etc. - these are their own words that they wrote, said, published, etc. themselves. And I believe them.

208 posted on 06/07/2023 2:59:30 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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