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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Confederate leaders themselves made it plain that slavery was the key issue sparking secession.
Inextricably intertwined in the question was slavery, and it only became the more so in the years that followed. Socially and culturally the North and South were not much different. They prayed to the same deity, spoke the same language, shared the same ancestry, sang the same songs. National triumphs and catastrophes were shared by both. For all the myths they would create to the contrary, the only significant and defining difference between them was slavery, where it existed and where it did not, for by 1804 it had virtually ceased to exist north of Maryland. Slavery demarked not just their labor and economic situations, but power itself in the new republic ... [S]o long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.
Confederate leaders themselves made it plain that slavery was the key issue sparking secession.
{{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Confederate leaders themselves made it plain that slavery was the key issue sparking secession.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Inextricably intertwined in the question was slavery, and it only became the more so in the years that followed. Socially and culturally the North and South were not much different. They prayed to the same deity, spoke the same language, shared the same ancestry, sang the same songs. National triumphs and catastrophes were shared by both. For all the myths they would create to the contrary, the only significant and defining difference between them was slavery, where it existed and where it did not, for by 1804 it had virtually ceased to exist north of Maryland. Slavery demarked not just their labor and economic situations, but power itself in the new republic ... [S]o long as the number of slave states was the same as or greater than the number of free states, then in the Senate the South had a check on the government.
{{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)Confederate leaders themselves made it plain that slavery was the key issue sparking secession.