• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They seceded because they did not have faith in the union to enforce slavery, which was federal law. There were more government representatives from slave owning states, and there was no risk of abolition prior to their secession.

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      11 months ago

      It wasn’t “the union” enforcing federal law (or not) but rather the federal government–and good for them, people of good conscience should not enforce such a law.