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1 Not About Slavery
2 Secession From The Union
2.1 Dates of Secession
3 Blacks In The South
4 Liberia
5 Sources

Not About Slavery

The American Civil War was not entirely about slavery. After all, Lincoln didn’t deliver “The Emancipation Proclamation” until January 1, 1863 (3 years after the states started seceding) and the proclamation only demanded slaves be freed in the South, not in the North.

In addition, Lincoln didn’t believe that black people could integrate into white culture and advocated for sending them back to Africa.

Secession From The Union

The North was communistically leaching off the South by taxing them for cotton production. They just wanted money and found a group they could try and take it from. The South felt it was “taxation without representation”  and thus seceded. Thus, the “Civil War” really was “The War of Northern Aggression”. After all, the constitution clearly states that any state is allowed to succeed from the Union, but when several states tried, the North attacked them for doing so. 

Dates of Secession

  • South Carolina: December 20, 1860
  • Mississippi: January 9, 1861
  • Florida: January 10, 1861
  • Alabama: January 11, 1861
  • Georgia: January 19, 1861
  • Louisiana: January 26, 1861
  • Texas: February 1, 1861
  • Virginia: April 17, 1861
  • Arkansas: May 6, 1861
  • North Carolina: May 20, 1861
  • Tennessee: June 8, 1861

Blacks In The South

To further support the above, there were free black men that fought in the Confederate Army and still cherish the Confederate Flag. And there were black slave owners in the South. In fact, the largest slave owner in the South (right up until the Civil War), William Ellison, was black. He even sold his own daughter into slavery!

  • “William Ellison Jr. (April 1790 – December 5, 1861), born April Ellison, was an American cotton gin maker and blacksmith in South Carolina, and former African-American slave who achieved considerable success as a slaveowner before the American Civil War. He eventually became a major planter and one of the wealthiest property owners in the state. According to the 1860 census (in which his surname was listed as “Ellerson”), he owned up to 68 black slaves, making him the largest of the 171 black slaveholders in South Carolina. He held 63 slaves at his death and more than 900 acres (360 ha) of land.[1] From 1830 to 1865 he and his sons were the only free blacks in Sumter County, South Carolina to own slaves. The county was largely devoted to cotton plantations, and the majority population were slaves.” – Wikipedia

Liberia

After the Civil War, the Untied States secured land in Africa, which they named Liberia, for African slaves to return to. 12,000 freeborn and foremerly enslaved Black Americans immigrated there and ended up enslaving the locals. LOL.

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