"A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery." - South Carolina Declaration of Secession, 1860

April 09, 2026 - 16:37 UTC

1
0
168
"For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have...refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property" - Georgia
1
0
127
"...the Federal Government, having perverted said powers, *not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States*... [emphasis in original document]" - Virginia's declaration of secession
1
0
121