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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 4840209" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>The North didn't hotly contest it beyond the abolitionists.  The concern in the Constitution was counting slaves in a state's population would give slave states unfair influence.  So they compromised.  Beyond that and a few other debates it wasn't a constant source of strife and wasn't even the primary focus of the Civil War.  A lot of people in the North sympathized with the South too.  Not saying all of this to defend the South but rather to show how we view the situation today is very much through the prism of current race relations and discourse.  They're tearing down statues because they want us to believe literally everything about America is racist and everything about that era was evil.  Literally everything.</p></blockquote><p></p>