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Oh, try studying history somewhere other than Wiki sometime too. Maybe you should pick up a history book from the late 1800's if you want one without revisionism on the topic of the "civil war" and slavery.
I trust a Wiki link alot more than the slanted one you posted.
Barrack Obama's Kenyan tribe participated in the slave trade. Are you outraged by that part of his African heritage that his ancestors participated in enslaving fellow blacks? Or, is that "different" somehow?
Why assume that anyone cares about what Obama's Kenyan tribe did one way or the other?
problem with that is slavery was the primary cause of the war.
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Myth 1. The South seceded over states' rights.
Confederate states did claim the right to secede, but no state claimed to be seceding for that right. In fact, Confederates opposed states' rights -- that is, the right of Northern states not to support slavery.
On Dec. 24, 1860, delegates at South Carolina's secession convention adopted a "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." It noted "an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" and protested that Northern states had failed to "fulfill their constitutional obligations" by interfering with the return of fugitive slaves to bondage. Slavery, not states' rights, birthed the Civil War.
South Carolina was further upset that New York no longer allowed "slavery transit." In the past, if Charleston gentry wanted to spend August in the Hamptons, they could bring their cook along. No longer -- and South Carolina's delegates were outraged. In addition, they objected that New England states let black men vote and tolerated abolitionist societies. According to South Carolina, states should not have the right to let their citizens assemble and speak freely when what they said threatened slavery.
Read up on the Corwin Amendment and one of it's most vocal supporters. In short you will find that 'Father Abraham' offered to forever allow slavery in the South if they would not secede.
Read up on the Corwin Amendment and one of it's most vocal supporters. In short you will find that 'Father Abraham' offered to forever allow slavery in the South if they would not secede.
Barrack Obama's Kenyan tribe participated in the slave trade. Are you outraged by that part of his African heritage that his ancestors participated in enslaving fellow blacks? Or, is that "different" somehow?
The tribes of what is now known as Kenya, located in east Africa, did not participate in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
And I love the "fellow blacks" comment. It's pretty entertaining to see people project contemporary notions of racial categories back into antiquity when such notions did not exist.
the question is is an unratified constitutional amendment all YOU got?
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