Ther were over 250k free people of color in the South. They had property, paid taxes and yea even owned other blacks as their own slaves.

Secession is a right given by the Constitution ,...The Southern States carried this out!


Now now onto taxation. Read the Tariffs of Abomination. The Fed. Gov't wanted an huge increase in cotton. The Northern States may have has the manufacturing but The South had all the wealth.

Lincoln offered the South to keep their slaves if they would give him the money in taxation. That was proposed in February prior to Ft. Sumter.

Carry On.


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