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200: American Civil War: The Causes (Part 1)
The Rest Is History
Is Slavery a National Institution?
The reason why slavery became a soudthern institution was overwhelmingly because of cotton. And that is why the acquisition of states along that kind of border zone become particular flash points. In the north, they have this idea of a conspiracy, a slave power; in the south, it bred a weird kind of paranoia. It's i but it's also infused with the question of what america is and who americans are, and what kind of t republic this is going to be. The thing about slavery, as you can say slavery was the cause of the American civil war. That is to say, everything and nothing. I mean, i that the question is, how was slavery,
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