While you guys have opinions from revisionist confederate historians, I have civil war era documents stating otherwise.
The South seceeded from the Union because they wanted to keep their slaves. That was the ultimate cause of the Civil War.
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DECLARATION OF SECESSION, MISSISSIPPI
"In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course."
"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun.
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/csa/missec.htm
2007-09-13
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