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Slavery was not THE cause for the Civil War? [1]

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Date: 2023-12-28  

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From AP:

“Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was asked Wednesday by a New Hampshire voter about the reason for the Civil War, and she didn’t mention slavery in her response — leading the voter to say he was “astonished” by her omission.

Asked during a town hall in Berlin, New Hampshire, what she believed had caused the war — the first shots of which were fired in her home state of South Carolina — Haley talked about the role of government, replying that it involved “the freedoms of what people could and couldn’t do.”…….

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Just as a reminder to her, there’s a little something called “The South Carolina Declaration of Secession” from 1860. It’s easily googled (even by Nikki Haley; it’s former governor). It’s all about slavery and how the northern states and the newly elected president were about to suppress South Carolina’s freedom to continue to have slavery as an institution. She can’t mention slavery because that was the “freedom” southern states were fighting for—the legal ability to own human beings as property. They fought, killed and died for that “state right”. South Carolina was the first state to secede from the union for this. South Carolina declared its secession from the United States citing “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding states to the institution of slavery,”



You can read the South Carolina Declaration of Secession in full here:

constitutioncenter.org/...

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