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[–] tcp ago 

Slavery as a (secondary) economic issue. No one would make the following ridiculous claim: The South was against the (blood and toil) machine of the North that demanded regulation, tariffs, and regular industry inputs from supporting regions, and, in essence, the Confederacy stood in ideological opposition to a system that was using child and female labor in soul-sucking factories.