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1. Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2017 05:59:12 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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   @moonman @sargoth @xj9 From what I have understood the secession was about the fear that potentially the Union might in the future abolish slavery. And by the end of the war, they did.
   
   Of course it's complicated. :-)
   • Sargoth (sargoth@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 14:44:40 UTC Sargoth

     Contemporary confederate patriots: it was about states rights!

     Actual confederates: this war is explicitly about slaves. the thing we are fighting about is slavery. slavery is the the most important thing in this war

     Hallå Kitteh repeated this.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2017 15:15:52 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @xj9 @sargoth Because slaves? Did this end up in the wrong convo?
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2017 05:20:18 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @xj9 @sargoth Talking about a world police in a civil war is a bit confusing. But I get what you mean now.
     
     Secession might have led to a better situation today. We will never know.
     
     That doesn't refute the fact that people are rewriting history. The war was about states' rights to decide whether to treat black people as sub-human.
   • Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 18-Aug-2017 06:00:34 UTC Hallå Kitteh

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     @moonman @sargoth @xj9 Was the loss of the balance between slave states and free states a large part of the momentum for secession?