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Radical Freedom
The war started over cotton MORON. Slavery did not enter the war for a while.
Really, because 'slaveholding states' was cited as defining the sides of the conflict in South Carolina's Declaration of Secession.
It was in the first sentence.
With slaves or slavery cited 18 times, the 'institution of slavery' cited as twice, and the declaration citing the geographic boundaries of the sides of the dispute as defined by 'the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery.'.
Oddly, cotton was never mentioned once.
Maybe 'for a while' doesn't mean what you think it means.
It may very well be that the bureaucrats in South Carolina wanted to preserve the abomination known as slavery.
But the solution was to allow the institution of slavery to disappear as it did in every other country.
The solution was not murdering over 650,000 Americans and destroying the US Constitution.
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