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> The states have rights Why don't you answer the question? The Civil War was fought over a state's right to do what, exactly?
by fknorangesite 5y ago
> The states have rights
Why don't you answer the question? The Civil War was fought over a state's right to do what, exactly?
- vkou 5y agoThe declarations of secession by Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Virginia, and Texas only mention slavery 83 times [1][2] between them, but if revisionists are to be believed, they were obviously not about a state's right to enslave human beings and to own them as property. [3] [1] https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states#Texas https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati... [2] That word happens to be mentioned only 11 times in the entirety of the text of Huckleberry Finn, by the way. [3] The word 'property' appears 16 times, and refers to human beings in every single one of those instances.
- woodruffw 5y agoI like it when people link the actual declarations, because Mississippi's in particular is a doozy: > Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth.