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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 10 months ago (4 children)

it was for state’s rights!

It was for state’s rights to:

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Be forced to allow slavery.

It was illegal in the Confederacy for them to ban it. So much for the right to choose for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 10 months ago

…literally own people.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Quite rough. Our civil war losers are treated much better.

...they weren't pro slavery though