Mississippi, A declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of the state of Mississippi from the federal Union [i]"In the momentous step which our state has taken of dissolving its connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, its but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have induced our course. Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery - the greatest material interest in the world. Its labor constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce on the earth...."[/i] When the poorly educated victims of school budget tax cuts, common knuckle dragging bigots and or neo confederate internet trolls say "the American Civil War was about the economy and not slavery" they're telling a truth in one breath and a sad lie in the other. The slaves -human families- [u][b]were the economy[/b][/u], and the perpetrators of this american atrocity had no issue whatsoever with making their position clear at the time. #history[i][/i]