here, this is taken from a historical website operated by southern apologists who maintain the war was fought over states right to secession.
During the presidential election of 1860, Southern leaders told the South to secede from the Union if Lincoln were to win the election because they believed Lincoln was an abolitionist. Abolitionists were people who worked to get rid of slavery. The South was afraid that Lincoln would outlaw slavery while in office. This would have created a problem for the South since its way of life depended on slaves. It would have prevented the South from thriving. Southern farmers would be forced to pay their former slaves in return for working on the farms. Plantation owners would make less money since most of the people working on the plantations would have to be paid. In other words, the main reason the Southern states seceded from the Union was to escape what they felt was a threat to their right to own slaves.
^^^ secession was about slavery.
now, its time to come to end this silly thread and ill do so by making a concession.
who started the war? the north.
why did the north start the war? to force the south to remain in the union.
was slavery part of the reason why the north started the war? no.
those are facts. the civil war was started to preserve the union, not to end slavery. fact.
now, that being said, we have some other facts.
what caused the north to start the war? the southern states secession.
what caused the southern states to secede? their fear of losing slavery.
what was the confederacy started to preserve? the institution of slavery.
the north was fighting to preserve the union, the south was fighting to preserve slavery.
this whole conversation began because i told you, adam, that the confederacy and the confederate flag was not to be celebrated, but to be shamed. and if one views slavery as immoral, then one has to condemn the confederacy. fact. done. no argument.