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In reply to the discussion: What was the Civil War fought over? [View all]

lapfog_1

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6. As was clear in almost every document created by the Confederacy
Thu Dec 28, 2023, 03:27 PM
Dec 2023

and in many private letters of the leaders of the Confederacy.

it was only post war that this excuse was floated by the "new south" to try to erase the stain of fighting a war to retain the right to own other people ( after kidnapping them or paying others to kidnap them from their home lands ).

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