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Slavery – boon and bane of the Antebellum South
Page entitled : Large
plantation owners as secessionists and founders of the C.S.A.
Content of this page is about :
How and why the large plantation owners did support secession and the
Confederated States of America.
Extract :
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to the origin of the war, the Southern secession movement, it is difficult to believe, that the most powerful group of interests in the South, the class of large plantation owners, did not actually support it. Many of the most prominent secession and nullification theorists were actually issued from that class. John Caldwell Calhoun, foremost among the nullifiers, was a large plantation owner of Abbeville, South Carolina. Jefferson Davis, president of the
C.S.A., owned …
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