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My high school teacher told us it was “state’s rights.” Like, went out of his way to say it wasn’t slavery. I looked it up to confirm it and of course it wasn’t true, it was absolutely about slavery. I googled damn near everything he told us after that.
A pattern which seems to repeat itself many times: An accusation proves to be, in reality, a confession.
How
confederatesmodern confederate apologists think the civil war startedFTFY.
The confederates themselves knew damn well that it was about slavery, and wrote as much into their declarations of secession.