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To: Shooter 2.5
States Rights to do just what exactly? Oh, yeah, chain people up, whip them and use them as slaves.

As far as I know, none of my ancestors that fought in CW I owned slaves. I think slavery wasn't even on the list of grievences that they had with the North. They are all gone now so that is speculation.

227 posted on 03/31/2010 5:06:54 PM PDT by central_va ( http://www.15thvirginia.org)
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To: central_va
I think slavery wasn't even on the list of grievences that they had with the North.

Slave owners were exempt from the southern draft. The southern war to support slavery was a perfect example of "rich man's war, poor man's fight".

298 posted on 03/31/2010 6:02:55 PM PDT by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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