It started with the Eerie Canal, forcing Southern trade ships to England to come north and pay taxes first .... around 1817 I think it was but I'll look it up in the books later after lunch.

It didn't just happen overnight. Fawking yankees started that [bleep] for decades before the South finally got enough of it.

And it wasn't so much about slavery .... that was one of several convenient reasons that could be used to challenge certain Constitutionality aspects of the split .... all men are created equal vs states rights. States Rights was the real biggie but the South was being taxed to fricking death ... cotton, indigo, rice, while the north was opening-up to massive importation of irish slave labor to fill the rich robber Barron's factories with cheap labor and foot soldiers desperate for citizenship.

Last edited by SCRooster; 07/16/21. Reason: Corrected autocorrect correction that was incorrect
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