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Furaffinitydotnet 7 points ago +9 / -2

The Confederacy was the Democratic Party.

It's almost like they democratically voted to keep slavery, while republicans established that a republic protects certain rights of its citizens.

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Marshall 17 points ago +19 / -2

The North decided that it would impose by force of arms that which was against the consent of those states that withdrew. Lincoln was always, first and foremost, willing to do ANYTHING to preserve the illusion of a Union.

Being ALL about slavery is revisionist history to hide the unlovely tyranny.

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GoldenEagle1776 10 points ago +10 / -0

Slavery was the go to excuse when the British wanted to get involved who banned slavery in their neck of the woods. Taxation and tarrifs was more honestly what the war was about, see the South's taxes went towards the North's industrialization while the tarrifs hurt the southern economy by raising the price of their most common imports.

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hectorspector 5 points ago +6 / -1

The South had tariffs on their exports as well as their imports.

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arentbaby 2 points ago +4 / -2

"three fifths compromise meant that white people only saw black people as three fifths of a person!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and other such retardation

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FrankZappaSA 2 points ago +2 / -0

That’s what the Dems STILL want—for their black voters (and white voters) to be completely dependent on the government. They want us to be slaves.