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What was the Civil War really about? (rumble.com)

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– vpnsurfer 3 points 2 years ago +4 / -1

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_csa.asp

Constitution of the Confederate States; March 11, 1861

No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.

The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States; and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this Confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.

No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States, under the laws thereof, escaping or lawfully carried into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor; but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such slave belongs,. or to whom such service or labor may be due.

The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several Sates; and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.

Does this answer the question?

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

while this is all true, Lincoln offered to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution if the South remains part of the Union, and the South refused. the fundamental thing that caused the South to secede was the fact that they did not trust the North to respect the economies and autonomy of the Southern States, even amongst the southerners who did in fact want to abolish slavery (Robert E. Lee among them).

of course, when you look at reconstruction, they were absolutely right.

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– Modeler43 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

Yeah almost every individual state declaration specifically mentioned slaves.

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