A declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of the State of Mississ.

ECONOMIC history; RESISTANCE to government -- History; UNITED States politics & government, 1861-1865; UNITED States history sources; AMERICAN Civil War, 1861-1865; SLAVERY; SECESSION of the Southern United States; SECESSION; MISSISSIPPI state history; SLAVERY in the United States; SLAVE labor; HISTORY; ECONOMICS

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The article presents the text of a declaration made by the state of Mississippi on the causes for its secession from the Federal Union of the United States. The article offers a defense of slavery as an economic necessity. It is argued that economically necessary products could only be produced by slave labor. It is stated that the reliance upon slavery, and the refusal to abandon it, led directly to the decision to secede from the United States. Complaints are made about the impact of the U.S. Constitution and key laws on economic and political conditions in Southern states. It is stated that secession from the United States was a necessary step to prevent political and economic oppression and decline in Mississippi.