Each state created a Declaration of Causes of Cessation. Each one mentions slavery explicitly as a reason. Slavery was mentioned 39 times. “Trade” was mentioned twice, one of which in reference to the trading of slaves.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
Dakota / Dakota
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