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Slavery and race was a primary cause of our Civil War

Por: PennLive Opinion September 24, 2022

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It is not well known that four Deep South states, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi appointed commissioners (Louisiana only sent a commissioner to Texas) to visit the slave states, including Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri from December 1860 to April 1861 encouraging each state to secede from the Union. The commissioners addressed legislatures and secession conventions, or provided letters to governors in states where... + full article



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