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by yaphet_Archive
ldopa\_chicago wrote:The Civil War was not started over the right to own slaves. That part came later.I don't know. The Cornerstone Address was given a few weeks prior to the start of the war and VP of the Confederacy, Alexander Stephens, stated pretty clearly why the South was succeeding."Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."EDIT: Felt that I should mention that I agree with a lot of what you said about modern day racism and the South-bashing, but just not on the "that part came later" thing.