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Originally Posted by tvbound

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

but it will fall on deaf ears here , the Noble Cause theory is the only one here many will embrace , I read some of the comments and can’t help thinking that some are whistling Dixie while they write