re: If secession was legal then what right did the North have to keep the South in the USA?

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I have and I'll say this: we project our modern moral feelings of slavery onto a economic/political debate of their time. The rationale for succession wasn't "hey we WANT to be evil so let's leave". That's obviously freaking retarded. The rationale was "these Yankees are trying to subvert our economy, tax us up the arse, and subvert their will over us"

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