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5/9/2016 7:44:28 AM
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Slavery was their economy. It kept their families fed. Most slaveowners weren't the terrible monsters depicted in literature. They didn't fight to keep people as property, they fought to keep what kept their lives going.
Not to mention Sectionalism and State's Rights were issues completely independent from slavery before slavery started stirring people's shit during the reform era, example, nullification crisis.
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[quote]They didn't fight to keep people as property, they fought to keep what kept their lives going.[/quote]And what kept their lives going was the right to keep human beings as property. Separating the two is disingenuous. It's the reason the South seceded to begin with, as stated by themselves in their declaration of causes.[quote]Not to mention Sectionalism and State's Rights were issues completely independent from slavery...[/quote]Not really.[quote]...before slavery started stirring people's shit during the reform era, example, nullification crisis.[/quote]Even the Nullification Crisis, while ostensibly about an "abominable tariff", involved slavery. Indeed, contemporaries of the era including John Calhoun and Andrew Jackson noted that the tariff was little more than a smokescreen for the real issue at hand, slavery.
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I'm telling you that they didn't fight just because they liked having slaves. They fought because slaves kept food on the damn table.
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Considering that it was believed that slavery was a God-given responsibility, I'm sure many of them did fight because they simply liked it.
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You think you can trace everything back to slavery when in reality, you can't. Not to mention "Not really." Is not even a fragment of an argument.
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[quote]You think you can trace everything back to slavery when in reality, you can't.[/quote]In this instance, you really can.[quote]Not to mention "Not really." Is not even a fragment of an argument.[/quote]There's no argument. State's rights and sectionalism were not completely independent from slavery. That's the fact of the matter.
