The Civil War was not about slavery. It was about the federal government taking tax $$ from the south while not allowing it a voice in how that $$ was used. Most "slaves" were treated well. It behooved the slave owner to treat his "slaves" well. When the plantation owner made more $$ the "slaves" got more. The slave owners who beat they're slaves were largely drunks, drug addicts, poor businessmen also beat they're wives/kids/animals IOW fuckups. The federal government had to send "ambassadors" to France/Europe to con them into not buying southern cotton (a then multi-million $$ industry) as the south had tens of millions of $$ & the federal government was basically broke at the start of the war. Funny how northerners were like "those poor slaves" before emancipation then after the war when tens of thousands of ex-slaves moved to the north they were like "I hate all these niggs moving here". They then became "carpetbaggers" invading the south & the homeless rate exploded while the quality of life plummeted in major southern cities.
