Nikki Haley says ‘of course’ Civil War was about slavery

Nikki Haley says ‘of course’ Civil War was about slavery

South Carolina's Ordinance of Secession — the 1860 proclamation by the state government outlining its reasons for seceding from the Union — mentions slavery in its opening sentence and points to the "increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding States to the institution of slavery" as a reason for the state removing itself from the Union.