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Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.
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gutenberg.orgHenry Watterson: “Thus, restricted to the South, it came to represent in the Southern mind a “right” which the South was bound to defend.”
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Watterson explains how the South came to view slavery as a right that needed defense.
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