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American History

dixiegrrrrl

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5. Because many of them owned plantations, farms, timber etc in the South

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Sat Jun 6, 2020, 02:25 PM

Jun 2020

and needed slave labor to keep making money. If the Southern states were a separate country, it would put a kink in their money flow, and it costs a lot of money to keep Congress bought off, and to install a sympathetic President.
(Hasn't changed that much, has it?)

so the more states there were to support a free labor way of life, the better.

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