# "The American Civil War wasn't about slavery because slavery didn't actually exist in the South"

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**Post date:** [January 16, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-civil-war-wasnt-about-slavery-because-slavery-didnt-actually-exist-in-the-south/1013037/21 "2025-01-16T19:28:55Z")

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> [@StringsandHammers](#):
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> Not only was the American Civil War fought over slavery but the Texas War for independance that preceeded it was at least in part fought over slavery.
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> Mexico outlawed slavery decades before the US and the Texas settlers didn’t want to give up their slaves. Texas fought 2 wars over slavery.

Not true. Mexico gave Texas a dispensation on slavery. And Texas declared independence along with something like 5 other Mexican states, including Yucatan and Zacatecas due to Santa Anna tearing up the Constitution and making himself a dictator. Did Yucatan declare independence over slavery? How about Zacatecas?

> **[Centralist Republic of Mexico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralist_Republic_of_Mexico)**
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> The Centralist Republic of Mexico (Spanish: República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic, officially the Mexican Republic (Spanish: República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes (lit. 'seven laws') after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic. It would ultimately last until 1846, when the Constitut

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