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[–] 21941944? ago 

That's like saying people bought the drugs so don't blame the drug pushers.

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[–] 21939435? ago 

"No matter who shipped the slaves, White Anglo-English aristocrats still bought and used the slaves to man their plantations, and white Anglo-Americans still went to war against the USA to preserve the institution of slavery and the ill-gotten mega-wealth it afforded a select few."

Wrong. The Confederate states went to war to preserve private property rights and to stop the northern carpet baggers from rent seeking in their deals with Europe. Want to take a guess at which group from the north was doing that? It wasn't white people...

Also slavery was a dying institution and everyone knew it because of the cotton gin and other industrial advances.

The south didn't want the new northern federal system stealing its profits. They were willing to fight for it as we should be.