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(DIR) Post #AdHFtjxOVNLdcHu44e by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T16:19:03Z
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Via Hemant Mehta:She had a full night to figure out the correct answer and still managed to say "we know the Civil War was about slavery, but..."#NikkiHaley: Of course the civil war was about slavery. We know that. That is unquestioned, always the case, we know the civil war was about slavery, but it was also more than that. It was about the freedoms of every individual. It was about the role of government 1/…
(DIR) Post #AdHFtkmRRaBIAbmpdo by GottaLaff@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T16:21:19Z
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2/ Via Anthony Michael Kreis, who did a whole thread about other states too, but here’s a sample:Texas joined the American union with the understanding that “the servitude of the African to the white race [is] a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.”
(DIR) Post #AdHFtlgo41GezQ9qUq by not2b@sfba.social
2023-12-28T16:56:28Z
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@GottaLaff The white Texan settlers had no problem being part of Mexico until Mexico abolished slavery and attempted to enforce it. Then they fought to keep slavery.
(DIR) Post #AdHFtmiGG61eADqWP2 by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-12-28T19:02:44Z
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@not2b @GottaLaff This ^This is the most correct answer because OF COURSE they were going to join Team!Slavery when the civil war came around
(DIR) Post #AdHFxZTrOj8gHbuq5A by dbc3@mastodon.world
2023-12-28T17:49:49Z
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@GottaLaff "The Texan War for Independence was because Mexico outlawed slavery. Farmers had migrated to that portion of Mexico, encouraged by Mexico because they wanted settlers for a tax base in the mostly unpopulated north. Problem was the cotton farmers brought their slaves. Mexico started getting serious about banning it and the farmers seceded. They later joined the US with the above caveat, and when that was at risk, seceded again. Their Articles of Secession say it clearly.
(DIR) Post #AdHFxaPHxD4n9imhay by dbc3@mastodon.world
2023-12-28T17:52:03Z
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@GottaLaff It was publicized as a revolution against tyranny and many USians fell for it, having recently fought their own such war. Tennessee sent so many soldiers to help in the fight that it got the nickname "Volunteer State." When I learned what the cause they volunteered for was, I got rid of my "Go Vols" memorabilia.
(DIR) Post #AdHFxbHAisB5qpzjaC by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-12-28T19:03:37Z
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@dbc3 @GottaLaff This too ^
(DIR) Post #AdHOy9i9aoIiEmxGUK by richard_merren@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T17:00:23Z
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@GottaLaff Here's the Secession document from Nikki Haley's home state of South Carolina, where she was governor. The leaders of the state explained their decision to secede and they explicitly named SLAVERY as the central issue. This was the official explanation of the people who led the state to secede, at the time they seceded, in their own words. It was about SLAVERY.https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/south-carolina-declaration-of-secession-1860
(DIR) Post #AdHPceohMWWoIEKRns by richard_merren@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T16:55:31Z
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@GottaLaff Here is the Texas Declaration of Causes in which the State of Texas explains that the explicit reason for seceding from the USA and joining the Confederacy was SLAVERY. This has been public and available and known for over a century and a half. It is not even a debatable question--the people who seceded told us in their own words at the time that the cause was slavery.https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/secession/2feb1861.html