As I recall, Confederate General Longstreet once ‘the South left the Union because of our differences, the only difference I ever heard of was slavery’.
So argue away that the Civil War was not about slavery, I believe that many confederate soldiers actually believed that. Ultimately the war WAS about differences that hinged on slavery. Consequently, the Civil War really was about slavery.
If it had not been for Slavery, the South would have never left the Union in the first place.
The actual cause of the Civil War was the invention of the cotton gin!
“If it had not been for Slavery, the South would have never left the Union in the first place.”
Then you need to study the taxation situation and other issues of the times. Slavery was but one of many economic and power issues of the day. To think that the average southerner that did not hold a single slave looked upon those fields with slave labor and not desire the job themselves is sort sighted.