By golly, I didn’t realize a simple lesson in economics might be required to explain southern concerns over tariffs. There are plenty of good sources concerning tariff issues between 1830 and 1860.
Would you care to quote a southern leader that said the war was all about slavery? How about a general, or plain old ordinary soldier? How about quoting a black Confederate soldier?
Consider this as well. A civil war is about taking control of government. Look at Rome, Spain and many other examples. The American Civil War is misnamed, but I would expect the victors would have it their way with history and facts be damned. The all-powerful federal government, or as its defenders would say, “we just wanted to preserve the union.”
How about directing me to one from the period?
Would you care to quote a southern leader that said the war was all about slavery? How about a general, or plain old ordinary soldier? How about quoting a black Confederate soldier?
Black Confederate soldiers were mainly a myth so I can't help you there. But as for the rest of your request, here you go.
"Our people have come to this on the question of slavery. I am willing, in that address to rest it upon that question. I think it is the great central point from which we are now proceeding, and I am not willing to divert the public attention from it." - Lawrence Keitt
"What did we go to war for, if not to protect our [slave] property?" - Virgina Senator Robert Hunter, 1865
"I am not ashamed of having fought on the side of slavery—a soldier fights for his country—right or wrong—he is not responsible for the political merits of the course he fights in ... The South was my country." - John Singleton Mosby
What was the reason that induced Georgia to take the step of secession? This reason may be summed up in one single proposition. It was a conviction, a deep conviction on the part of Georgia, that a separation from the North-was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery. -- Speech of Henry Benning to the Virginia Convention
This new union with Lincoln Black Republicans and free negroes, without slavery, or, slavery under our old constitutional bond of union, without Lincoln Black Republicans, or free negroes either, to molest us.
If we take the former, then submission to negro equality is our fate. if the latter, then secession is inevitable --- -- Address of William L. Harris of Mississippi
"The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution -- African slavery as it exists amongst us -- the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution." - Alexander Stephens
A civil war is about taking control of government. Look at Rome, Spain and many other examples. The American Civil War is misnamed, but I would expect the victors would have it their way with history and facts be damned.
Until the early 1900's the conflict was officially titled the War of Rebellion or the War of Southern Rebellion. I have no problem returning to those more accurate names.