• barneypiccolo@lemm.ee
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    Exactly. The Civil War- era Constitutions of the Southern states ALL mentioned the right to keep slavery as one of their first, if not the first, reason for secession.

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      And the Confederacy actually forbid any of it’s member states from ever banking slavery.

      So “states rights” was always a lie. The South actively fought against state authority.