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I feel like there's a disconnect between what you think a monument is for, and what they are actually built for.
Statues to confederate generals commemorating their achievements in the civil war are inherently celebrations of enemy combatants killing of union soldiers to protect slavery.
>Muh states rights
To do what?
>Muh most didn't own slaves
Most believed they would own slaves, and 1/3 had slaveowner family.
>It was for other reasons!
"The Declaration for the Causes of the Seceding States."
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"The prohibition of slavery in the Territories, hostility to it everywhere, the equality of the black and white races, disregard of all constitutional guarantees in its favor, were boldly proclaimed by its leaders and applauded by its followers. "
South Carolina's argument is essentially "Our states rights are being violated because Anti-Slave states are asserting states rights over escaped slaves."
The very moment the state's rights argument worked in the opposite direction, southern states went to the federal government, which promptly squashed the northern states ability to impose their own states rights over their own territories and people within them.
