... to Old Virginia. Surely the leaders of our (at least most of us) home state committed treason for reasons better than to perpetuate slavery. Let's see:

AN ORDINANCE

To Repeal the ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution:

The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention, on the 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eight-eight, having declared that the powers granted them under the said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States, and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and 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.

Now, therefore, we, the people of Virginia, do declare and ordain that the Ordinance adopted by the people of this State in Convention, on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and all acts of the General Assembly of this State, ratifying or adopting amendments to said Constitution, are hereby repealed and abrogated; that the union between the State of Virginia and the other States under the Constitution aforesaid, is hereby dissolved, and that the State of Virginia is in the full possession and exercise of all the rights of sovereignty which belong to a free and independent State. And they do further declare that the said Constitution of the United State of America is no longer binding on any of the citizens of this State.

This Ordinance shall take effect and be an act of this day when ratified by a majority of the votes of the people of this State, cast at a poll to be taken thereon on the fourth Thursday in May next, in pursuance of a schedule hereafter to be enacted.

Done in Convention, in the city of Richmond, on the seventeenth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the eighty-fifth year of the Commonwealth of Virginia

JNO. L. EUBANK,
Sec'y of Convention.

Well, at least it was a little more subtle. But the end of the second paragraph is pretty clear. When deciding to commit treason, slavery was the reason.

Maybe some of the neo-Confederates on here can point to some other primary sources that refute what seems to be the inevitable conclusion, that the South fought to perpetuate slavery. If they are not too busy playing their "guess the race" games.

gerrymanderer2 (OP) posts several lies on ffu daily - many\.10think he's a fx co gov worker who is getting paid to do it for false DNC democrat "advertising". he floods ffu with useless posts to bump down major news, posts fecal matter, mutilated bodies, child porn, foreign drug ads and sneaker ads, tells people to kill themselves and government should seize them and put them on psych pills in prison - decided by democrat gov of course, promotes kangaroo courthouse trials, gives anti-religious rants, gives satanic ritual rants, posts black males with large dicks on white young females, portends white low birth rate and fall of USA, food tampering/poisoning, and anything possible to DEMORALIZE white people on ffu. (perhaps a chinese prisoner or isis member - but definitely knowledgeable of fx co gov from the inside at times). the website operator has told him "not to post or return" which are still posted - not removed, by the sysop: not because of a political leaning but for continual illegal and gross spam along with messages that are only to demoralize if not kill others. he/she plays at financial terrorism as well: continuall reporting false financial data, and fake emergency please from (fake members of the community he makes up)

DROP DEAD G2.

no one believes your fake history

many ethnicities including white europeans were treated similarly

the facts are not all blacks purchased were treated like slaves - infact most of the "chained" ones were not chained by USA but by europe and africa, and in USA german lords kept "bad" slaves chained and treated them harshly - but the german lords had plans for making the South part of germany, not part of new england.

also early early USA had people who paid to come who had (at first) means to care for themselves. they were not begging drifters, nor did many of them have the means to care for begging drifters.

the people who settled the west were most often the wealthier who had means to purchase supplies and wagons: the poor did NOT settle the west

there was no open invitation at any time in America for the poor to ship over and demand welfare while not working

ONLY AN OBAMA HISTORY, OR POLITICAL TRIPE FROM THAT TIME, would reflect slavery as "the real issue"

Slavery was not the real issue back then any more than "russian collusion" is today.

let's discuss India now

modern day: many still drink "river water" despite good ground water being highly available in their area. many live in rich cities while others are stuck in shanty towns (which they OWN - and that they don't wish gov to force them to move is a whole book/story)

India is using slave labor to scrap "mega ships" for steal to build a NAVY that sails the 7 seas along side CHINA.

The wealthy in India are infamous for profuse "WAGE GAP". and wage gap is not much better in most of the "5 tigers" of asia.

and africa? they still slave and kill slaves, blacks enslaving blacks.

The KKK has been indicated for crimes BY NAACP. There's never been evidence KKK in general harmed blacks (two members suspected, 1 convicted, of murder). But NAACP has been highly violent - raping and killing whites to such extent when whites here "where are the white women at" (on that commercial), they say - yea - where ARE they at and why ARE illegals and or black breeding so quickly out of turn out of line like they are?? How ARE these white women dis-appearing so quickly birth rate is low? NAACP has something to do with that and all the dead white women.

SUMMARY: this article about USA hundreds of years ago mis-treating blacks is PURE CRAP.