Sunday, February 12, 2023

Confederate States Ceded States' Rights to Confederate Government: Ironic or Predictable?

 Ironic or Predictable?

Is it ironic (or predictable) that the southern states who seceded from the Union claiming "states' rights" as the rationale, immediately conceded those rights to a centralized Confederate government?

See: This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy by Matthew Karp. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press (2016).

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