re: Slavery was not the only issue the South was fighting for

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Indeed.

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That's not exactly relevant. Because back then it wasn't "wrong".

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It's always been wrong to own other people.

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Yeah and then they killed a bunch of actual Americans

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Yeah, when the "actual" Americans invaded Virginia. If the Army of the Potomac doesn't cross that river, no one dies. Lincoln could have easily blockaded the Confederacy out of existence without firing a bullet.

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It's always been wrong to own other people

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Totally agree, but just like folks believed that smoking actually had health benefits, slavery was an institution. Here's what I don't understand. Why is it that Americans are the only folks on earth still pissed about slavery? I mean, I don't see Europeans wearing shirts that read.....kill the Romans.

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One of the biggest ideals was "state's rights," which is guaranteed by the constitution.

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Yup defending the homeland from yankee aggression and fighting for states rights!


We waz freedom fighterz n shite!

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We waz freedom fighterz n shite!

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Who had kangs working for them.

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One of the biggest ideals was "state's rights," which is guaranteed by the constitution. This seems to have been forgotten (or never learned).

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Kids in the South were issued pamphlets in the mail about "state's rights" during the re-imagining and romancticism of ante-bellum South during the late 19th century revisionist Southern writers.

And it still holds water to this day. It's the oldest fallacy in American politics.

If it was about State's rights, why did the Confedarcy ban the outlawing of slavery among all Confederate States.

Surely, they loved State's rights so much, they'd allow Virginia to ban slavery years later if they so chose? A rigth for a State to choose, right?

Nope, slavery shall be forever said the Confed Constition and no State of the Confederacy can ever ban slavery.

The Confederacy became the biggest dictatorship compared to the Union when it came to laws and toeing the line and people still talk about State's rights. :rotflmao:

Its not about defending them. We know it was wrong. Like child labor was wrong. Like blood sports was wrong. Like not allowing women right were wrong. But if youre going to explore history you have to interpret it by using era appropriate thinking and understanding.

The South’s real concern in the antebellum period was that states and territories in the North and West were passing state laws aimed at undermining the federal fugitive slave laws, and that new states would choose to join the Union as free states. Those jurisdictions wanted to retain the right to determine whether people could be slaves within their state boundaries—as opposed to the federal government making such laws.

But the South was all about State's rights!!!!! What a crock of shite.

They were about presevering slavery at all costs.

The South’s distain for states’ rights can be seen in the Constitution’s Fugitive Slave Clause (the less famous cousin to the Three-Fifths Clause, which boosted federal representation from slave states), the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and the 1850 Compromise. All were federal actions aimed at controlling northern states. The South did not return the North’s favor: before the Civil War, no attempts to ban slavery even made it to a vote on the floor of Congress.



The South was the biggest aggressor against state's rights because they knew with more states being admitted they were losing their cause and losing all their political power...over, slavery.

People who buy the State's rights argument are fricking moronic and brainwashed by revisionist grand-pappies who felt ashamed.