Explain the role of slavery in the buildup to the Civil War starting with the aftermath of the American Revolution.
“However much [Confederate President] Jefferson Davis and other southerners argued that succession and the war were about states’ rights, the states of the Lower South seceded in 1860-1861 primarily to preserve slavery. The South Carolina Declaration on the Immediate Causes of Secession explains that the state left the union because of the ‘increasing hostility on … Read more