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Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

If by "States' Rights" you mean the State's belief it in the right to legalize the ownership of another human being, then sure, it was about States' Rights.

I'm not saying slavery had nothing to do with it and unlike your father-in-law would never say or think African Americans had it better back then when they were for all practical purposes treated similar to modern day Pakistani/Iranian/Afghan etc. etc. wives and daughters.

No human will ever have it better being owned as opposed to being free.

But the numerous tariffs imposed by Washington a few decades before the war on things like cotton, meant solely to benefit the industrial north to the detriment of the south certainly played a part leading to the conflict as the tariffs all but ended the ability for the south to export to Britain, etc. and instead forced selling solely to the north at artificially low prices.