The "Confederate States of America - Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union." Simply put this declaration is why they seceded from the Union, and the following is an excerpt from that. Read it and you will see what "states' rights" and economic reasons they actually mean:
"We affirm that these ends for which this Government was instituted have been defeated, and the Government itself has been made destructive of them by the action of the non-slaveholding States. Those States have assume the right of deciding upon the propriety of our domestic institutions; and have denied the rights of property established in fifteen of the States and recognized by the Constitution; they have denounced as sinful the institution of slavery; they have permitted open establishment among them of societies, whose avowed object is to disturb the peace and to eloign the property of the citizens of other States. They have encouraged and assisted thousands of our slaves to leave their homes; and those who remain, have been incited by emissaries, books and pictures to servile insurrection."
To sum it up, it says that non-slave-holding states are f*cknig things up for slave-holding states by saying that owning slaves is bad. These non-slave-holding states are also f*ckng up slave-holding states' "way of life" by educating, encouraging, and assisting slaves to escape or fight back.
So, there you go. Once again ignorance is defeated by knowledge. Make sure you share this people. The only way to overcome racism is to face it and defeat it.
Thanks,
B.
Sources:
The Civil
War Home Page
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