That would be a pretty hard economic "bonus" to give up. Can you imagine the 
profit margins from slavery?  
 Capitalism constantly drives the wedge between morality and economics, between 
community and making money. The social question is: How much can a person 
detest themselves, or distract themselves, and still exploit others, purely to 
make a fortune?
 

---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 I recall that someone posted here a time or two the idea that the Confederate 
States seceded over the issue of "states rights" - as a citizen of the original 
seceding state, South Carolina, I have disagreed with that and for anyone who 
cares to read it, here is one of the historical documents that show the 
Confederate States were actually invoking their constitutional rights as slave 
holding states, rights identified by Congress and set forth in the US 
Constitution. It is clear from reading the entire document that the issue, the 
only issue was the right to practice slavery. Pure and simple.

The document is called: Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and 
Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union.

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp 
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
 









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