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Alabama in the American Civil War
The U.S. state of Alabama declared that it had seceded from the United States of America on January 11, 1861. It then quickly joined the Confederate States during the American Civil War. A slave state, Alabama provided a significant source of troops and leaders, military material, supplies, food, horses and mules. However, very little of the state's cotton crop could be sold, as the main port of Mobile was closed off by the U.S. Navy.
==Secession==
At the Alabaman secession convention in January 1861, one of the convention's members stated that the state's declaring of secession was motivated by slavery:
In an 1861 speech delivered by Alabaman politician Robert Hardy Smith, Smith stated that the State of Alabama had declared its secession from the United States over the issue of slavery, which he referred to as "the negro quarrel". In the speech, he praised the Confederate constitution for its un-euphemistic protections of the right to own slaves:
Upon declaring its secession from the United States, Alabama adopted a new state constitution. In it, it forbade the emancipation of slaves by the state itself, or by "any other country", such as the United States of America:
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