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70sEraVet

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12. The passing of the 'Twenty Negro' law exarcerbated the resentment....

Reply to Chainfire (Reply #11)

Thu Dec 28, 2023, 07:16 PM

Dec 2023

that the poor Confederate soldiers felt. If it wasn't apparent before that law that they were fighting to preserve an institution that they themselves would NEVER benefit from, it surely must have opened their eyes when they watched members of their 'aristocracy' leave the field and head back to their plantations!
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What was the Civil War fought over? [View all] LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2023 OP

The clean, generic answer is states rights. Omnipresent Dec 2023 #1

specifically the states rights to grant their citizens the right to own slaves. lapfog_1 Dec 2023 #2

Ding, ding, ding! Omnipresent Dec 2023 #3

When they mentioned property rights, the property issue of the day was owning slaves. They aren't talking brewens Dec 2023 #4

As was clear in almost every document created by the Confederacy lapfog_1 Dec 2023 #6

She wasn't that far off the mark Rocknation Dec 2023 #5

I guess it WAS drapery lapfog_1 Dec 2023 #7

The black heart of the Confederacy was committed to the ideology of slavery Shermann Dec 2023 #8

The black hearts were those of the leaders of the rebelliion. Chainfire Dec 2023 #11

The passing of the 'Twenty Negro' law exarcerbated the resentment.... 70sEraVet Dec 2023 #12

The professor in a history class I took as an elective in college said this TlalocW Dec 2023 #9

The professor in a history class I took as an elective in college said this TlalocW Dec 2023 #10

Wow! K&R! Spot on! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 #13