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December 04, 2011

Tennessean: Southern Baptists examine role in slavery

by Bob Smietana
The Tennessean

Southerners still argue the cause of the Civil War on the 150th anniversary of its start.

Some call it the War of the Northern Aggression, a battle that pitted patriots defending states’ rights against a tyrannical federal government. Others blame economics — regional tensions between the industrialized North and the rural South.

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