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... Only Southern states believed slavery to be a major, and essential, economic factor. ... Slavery became an issue in the economic struggles between Southern plantation owners and Northern industrialists in the first half of the 19th century, a struggle that culminated in the American Civil War. Despite the common perception to the contrary, the war was not fought primarily on the slavery issue. ... This was reinforced after the war by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the US constitution (1865, 1868, and
1870), which abolished slavery altogether and guaranteed citizenship and civil rights to former slaves.
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