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"The civil war was not fought over slavery, but instead states' rights"..... to determine if they could do things like decide for themselves if they could own slaves.
And obviously, the desire to own humans factored largely into the Souths desire to maintain that self determination. It was the bedrock of their economy and they had just failed to keep a president from being elected from a party that was surging on a promise to keep slavery out of the western territories.
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