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24From my understanding, it was originally about taxes. The southern states wanted their slaves to count as population for the purposes of representation within Congress, but they wanted the slaves to not count as population towards taxes owed.
The northern states said fuck that noise so the southern states seceded. Hence the war started, and only then was the emancipation proclamation signed, which stripped rebelling(and only rebelling) states from owning slaves. After the war, the 13th amendment was signed which actually banned slavery.
Edit:also look into the 3/5ths compromise.
8Don't forget the Electoral College there too... They get electors based on a non-voting population
8From my understanding it was much more about the refusal of free states to cooperate in returning escaped slaves than it was about taxes. I've never heard of a tax based on the population of a state.
3Little more complicated (but also less complicated at the same time, somehow) than that. A lot of it also had to do with the inevitability of the United States moving away from slavery as an institution. The Missouri Compromise effectively prevented any further parts of the remaining Louisiana Purchase territories from entering the Union as slaveholding states. The Dread Scott decision overruled this in 1857, but by this point the damage was done and animosity between the two halves of the US was coming to a head. To add to this, Alexander Stephens and others very publicly called for secession on the basis of preserving slavery as an institution. See Stephens' "Cornerstone Speech" and the various declarations of secession made by the former Confederate states themselves for additional details. So, taxes were possibly a component, but the core driving motivator behind secession was in many ways more fundamental. One could even argue that the taxation argument is a way of whitewashing what is fundamentally a motive for the preservation of slavery, as the Revolutionary War was fought on the basis of taxation without representation and the Confederacy wanted to draw explicit parallels to their secession and the United States' secession from England, however specious that comparison might be.
1I think the “tipping point” so to speak was much closer though. There was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which took away Northern states’ right to not be complicit in slavery. Then in 1861, Kansas entered the Union as a free state and the slavers were now out-voted in both the EC and Senate. Shortly after Kansas became a state, they attacked the US.
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Ugh, not another meme painting Biden as a leftist icon despite his literal history of being pro-segragation -ntm being a massive tool, generally.
1Edit: Apparently nobody likes The Simpsons?
-11Your blue hat is on too tight. Biden is a racist.
-24Did you seriously make an account just to make this comment? The Heritage Foundation? Fucking yikes.
19If they piss into the void often enough, someone gets splashed. The mantra of right-wing propagandists.
11Wait wait wait though. Regardless of this source's clear bias, he did vote in favor of segrating buses early in his career, and is as "establishment" as you can get imho. Owes me $600 too.
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