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spoilation

n. the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]

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But they lost no time in declaring that it was only a proof of what they had always announced: that the War was not for the preservation of the American Union, but for the destruction of African Slavery, and the spoilation of the Southern States.