The secession and the Confederacy's existence were predicat… - William C. Davis

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The secession and the Confederacy's existence were predicated on slavery, on preserving and defending it against containment, as virtually all of its founders from Robert Barnwell Rhett to Jefferson Davis unashamedly declared in 1861.

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William Charles Davis (born 1946) is an American historian from the U.S. state of Virginia, known for his writings on the American Civil War.

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The South had a far better chance of preserving its institutions and quirks of culture by remaining a part of a larger nation.

It is impossible to point to any other local issue but slavery and say that Southerners would have seceded and fought over it.

In fact, the state rights defense of secession in 1860–1861 did not really appear in force until after 1865 as builders of the Lost Cause myth sought to distance themselves from slavery.

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