The fact that the South intended to form a slave republic?
Read the Confederate Constitution and see Negro slavery written right into the fabric of the Government built (as Andrew Stephens stated) on the fact of the inequality of the races.
This was the cornerstone of the slave republic, correcting the supposed 'error' of the Declaration of Independence that all men were created equal and thus, had a right to self-government.
I guess it was only coincidence that all the states of the fledging slave republic were slave states?
in point of fact, BOTH the US & CS Constitution have slavery written into them.
BOTH the CSA & the USA had slave-OWNERS. BOTH nation's slave-OWNERS struggled to keep THEIR slaves until the 13th & 14th Amendments went into effect.
BOTH countries "traded in human flesh".
the TRUTH is that ABOUT the SAME percentage of northerners AND southerners OWNED slaves.
BOTH nations were AFFLICTED by chattel slavery & NEITHER nation's hands were clean.
fwiw, i am NO FAN of the slave-OWNERS on either side, though i particularly am no admirer of the southern slave-OWNERS because they FREQUENTLY COLLOBOATED with the damnyanklee invaders to keep their slaves. OBVIOUSLY slavery was MORE important to them than our dixie LIBERTY.
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