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Old 09-12-2021, 05:44 AM
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Although not everyone owned slaves, the vast majority of confederate state citizens knew how important the free labor and the owning of other human beings - was to the economy. THAT is the reason they fought to keep it.

How Slavery Became the Economic Engine of the South - HISTORY