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21 " Before long the impetus for prohibition spread to all of the states, and even without martial law their legislatures began to pass laws prohibiting distillation for any purposes other than medicinal use. "
― , Look Away!: A History of the Confederate States of America
22 " But the most interesting of all slave maladies was what Cartwright chose to call “drapetomania,” the disease that made blacks want to run away from slavery. "
23 " They did retain the prohibition on the African slave trade, not from any opposition to slavery but simply as sound business policy. The South no longer needed it, and introduction of new slaves from abroad served only to act on supply and demand by reducing the value of those already there. "
24 " 26They might not be able to inflame poor non-slaveholding whites to secession and possible war to protect the planter’s investment in slaves, but an appeal to fears of racial amalgamation cut across class lines. "
25 " A poor man might count for very little, but he was still free and white, which at least made him better than a free black or a slave, and in a society deeply dominated by class and caste, that was something worth fighting for. "
26 " South Carolina wanted to be certain that no misguided egalitarianism led to an excess of democracy. After all, that was partially what they were seceding from. "
27 " Significantly, in a movement that all declared to be predicated on the sovereignty of the states, the one area in which now and again in the future they would deny state sovereignty would be slavery. To theold Union they had said that Federal power had no authority to interfere with slavery issues in a state. To their new nation they would declare that the state had no power to interfere with a federal protection of slavery. Of all the many testimonials to the fact that slavery, and not state rights, really lay at the heart of their movement, this was the most eloquent of all. "
28 " 87The Confederacy had become virtually a welfare state ahead of its time, and yet again the antithesis of the hands-off government ethic upon which so much of Southern political and social ideology lay based. "
29 " he recognized slavery as a vital element of social morale, for even the lowliest white still could stand with pride knowing that he was the superior of a black. Slavery gave poor whites a social status nowhere else enjoyed by the peasantry, and as proof he argued that some of the most ardent supporters of slavery were whites too poor themselves to own slaves. "