Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...issues. That great struggle was the trial of an indictment against human freedom under the disguise of a contention for the disputed right of secession. But behind that long maintained and often honestly supported right to secede was the desire to continue the outgrown and detestable institution of chattel slavery. But for that too long tolerated refuge of oppression no secession could have occurred, and the real cause for that military and political conflict of ten years' duration was the existence of negro slavery in a democratic republic. The first issue of the war, however, was not slavery...