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--- 14901897
Ok let’s settle this one and for all. Was the American civil war about slavery?
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>>14901897 (OP)
State's rights included right to slavery. If it wasn't slavery, there probably would've been some other issue in the far future similar to it.
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>>14901897 (OP)
The South left the union because it felt it no longer had the representation at the national level to prevent slavery from being abolished. The primary legal question at the heart of the war was whether states have the right to unilaterally seceded from the union. If you answer yes, then even if you don't like why the South left, they were free to leave if they so chose too. If you answered no, then the federal government had every right in using force to preserve the Union.
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>>14901897 (OP)
Americans are bloodlust sadists and they cover it with a superhero larp. They will always claim to fight to protect someone else. For the childrens. The blacks. The oppresed incubator curds. They think if they smear their opponent first then they can just kill them.
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>>14901897 (OP)
Maybe
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>>14902328
*would not continue to have at some point in the future
They certainly had the legislative power before the war broke out, they just saw the writing on the wall and decided it was unacceptable.
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>>14901897 (OP)
To summarize, yes. Particularly slavery in the western territories. This really isn’t even debated that much in academia anymore, because the evidence is pretty overwhelming. Of course you have your guys like dilorenzo who I unironically think writes what he does because he knows it’s an easy paycheck. And your libertarians who want to make everything about taxes, and your hair splitters who want to say that secession caused the war, not slavery. Which is like arguing the Titanic sunk because it had a hole in it, not because it hit an iceberg.

>>14901900
The South never gave a fuck about states until the shoe was on the other foot. It’s just some retarded shit confederate leaders said after the war to appear less like assholes to the rest of the world.
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>>14901897 (OP)
yay
>>14902672
nay
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>>14901897 (OP)
No, it was about the JEW.
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>>14901900
The South had no issue shitting on the rights of the northern states with the Fugitive Slave Act. They didn't give a fuck about states' rights, what mattered to them was maintaining their power within Congress.