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Originally Posted by marksiwel
and we are in agreement.
Now why did the South leave? Other than slavery. In real terms not "The man was messing with them" why did they leave?
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Multiple court decisions that were starting to limit slave trade and tightening the reigns on control of slave use and trade. Combined with the fact that many thought of Lincoln as an abolitionist during his election. The abolition of slavery would have devastated the economy of the south, whose agricultural base relied on slave labor.