What an exciting topical shift, who KNOWS what we'll be talking about next.
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Originally Posted by Humerox
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So the blanket of "states' rights" can be used to obfuscate the real reason for the war.
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Doesn't get any more straightforward than that
Haven't read any of these texts you're bringing up, but one aspect of the Pro-Slavery arguments being made that I do recall is how plantation owners took a paternalistic stance, decrying how northern industrialists would treat "former" slaves simply as replaceable bottom-feeding wage slaves and nothing more, while on the plantations they were fed and housed and the owners otherwise provided for the personal needs of their slaves. Essentially a "quality of life" argument.