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To: Alberta's Child

We did not ‘’secede’’ from Britain. We declared ourselves free people with rights given to us by God, not by a degenerate monarchy that thought itself superior by dint of ‘’royal blood’’.

The South seceded from the Union in order to preserve an economic system based on the use of slave labor.


211 posted on 01/20/2021 3:46:08 AM PST by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
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To: jmacusa
Like it or not, slavery was firmly established in the U.S. at the time the Constitution was ratified by every one of the original thirteen states. A provision for counting slaves is even written into the Constitution — because (now get this hypocrisy) — the “free” states in the north didn’t consider slaves counted in the census at all.

If states like Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia could have known in the 1780s what would happen to them 80+ years later, they never would have ratified the Constitution in the first place. That right there is enough to convince me that they had every right to secede from the U.S.

219 posted on 01/20/2021 3:59:26 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("There's somebody new and he sure ain't no rodeo man.")
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