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Originally posted by CDSmith
And it doesn't matter if only a few hundred thousand folks owned slaves. The fact is that a few milliion U.S. citizens in the huge region known as the "South" were willing to fight to defend the institution of slavery. An area that is bigger and was more populace than many entire countries at the time.
Your "small" argument holds no water Lab, because it was by no means a small issue in the U.S. like it was in Canada.
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Only a relatively small number of southerners actually owned slaves. Most southerners were to poor to own slaves. The fight was primarliy over state rights, which of course involved the right to own slaves.