Posted by MarkB_MI on January 25, 2015 at 11:38:37 from (70.194.3.235):
In Reply to: Re: 12 days a slave posted by Harvey2 on January 25, 2015 at 09:23:00:
>The war for southern independence did not start over slavery, that was an after thought.
That is revisionistic nonsense, yet it has been repeated enough that many folks think it to be true.
The first state to secede from the union was South Carolina. If you read South Carolina's "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union", you will find nary a mention of unfair trade practices. You can read this document at the link below. The essence of its argument is that the constitution is a contract between the states, and since some of the northern states weren't capturing and returning escaped slaves, those states had violated the contract and South Carolina was no longer obligated to comply with the constitution, either.
Now that is not to say there were not other sore points between the north and south. But the secession needs to be taken in the historical context, and the context in the 1850s was one of growing contention over slavery between the north and south. "Bleeding Kansas" and John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry are a couple of examples where blood was shed over slavery prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.
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