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To: carton253
PeaRidge used a Charleston Mercury editorial to argue that secession was about liberty not slavery. See his Post #42.

I responded with an account of another editorial from the same paper to indicate that slavery was very much on the minds of Charleston's secessionists.

That's not to say that everyone who wore a Confederate uniform was fighting for slavery.

But you can't throw slavery out of the picture and understand the Civil War.

84 posted on 10/18/2006 2:12:24 PM PDT by x
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To: x
But you can't throw slavery out of the picture and understand the Civil War.

Thank you for that. Now, it all makes sense. (sarcasm off)

111 posted on 10/18/2006 9:44:13 PM PDT by carton253 (Sadness is just another word for not enough chocolate.)
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