Quote:They wished to leave because slavery was about to be abolished. The idea that the Civil War was about states' rights and not about slavery is some of the most insidious revisionist history of the past few decades. The Texas articles of secession include the words slave or slavery 21 times, it mentions "rights" 4 times, once in the context of "rights of the slave-holdings States". 

 

It was the "how" it was to be abolished as well as the Peculiar Institution itself at issue, as it had been for the entirety of the country's history to that point. Slavery was abolished everywhere else in the western world, mostly without bloodshed, through the actions of various groups. It could've been the same here.

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