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To: driftless2
Do a word search on the word "slave" in the following link. It only appears in Texas, Alabama and Virginia articles.

Ordinances of Secession

No occurrences in the other 10 states

52 posted on 11/01/2012 7:40:05 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

How did I know I’d get a reply from you? Here’s the truth: although not every southerner fought for slavery , the plain fact remains the south seceded from the union because it feared Lincoln or people in his party would end slavery. Despite the fact that Lincoln tried to reassure the southern states that he wouldn’t change anything. All other arguments for the south seceding are spurious.


56 posted on 11/01/2012 11:14:43 AM PDT by driftless2
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To: central_va
Do a word search on the word "slave" in the following link. It only appears in Texas, Alabama and Virginia articles.

Uh, du-uh. Some of those are just ordinances announcing a dissolution of ties to the United States. They don't give reasons of any sort.

If you look at the declarations of the causes of secession from some of the states, slavery is quite prominent. Link

And this is surprising in a way. Southerners convinced themselves that secession was right because they saw the North "enslaving" them, so one would expect them to avoid using the word "slave." That they didn't is a sign that slavery was an unavoidable reason for secession.

104 posted on 11/03/2012 8:11:44 AM PDT by x
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