Well you were still wrong about slavery. There would have been little peace between countries where one viewed certain people as mere property.
Modernization would have forced you to give up slavery anyway, the South would not have been able to compete economically.
I don’t disagree about being able to secede, there are valid reasons to do it and also invalid ones. It also doesn’t mean the rest of the states may not have differing opinions as to what if anything needs to be done to the seceding states. And their assessments could also be right, or wrong.
In today's world slavery continues to exist on a massive scale, and regretfully slavery exists in America. Our politicians invited slavery back to America and for decades refused to acknowledge it (slavery) existed, once more in America. There are new forms of slavery being enacted by our politicians both in the present and in our past. The politicians would disagree. People, in America, are not as free as they once were, instead Americans are burdened with countless methods to keep Americans under the yoke of one form or another of slavery. Our politicians tell us this is a matter of perspective though regretfully the perspective of a politician is how do I hold power while the perspective of the masses of the citizens is how do I survive. Survival verses Power. Which offers (survival or power) the opportunity for slavery to flourish?
an after thought ... what would happen if the entire country seceded from Washington D.C.? Could a more perfect Union be formed?
I never said we were right about Slavery, but here’s a little known group of Facts...
#1: The first slave was owned by a BLACK man
#2: Not ONE slave was brought to America under the Stars and Bars they were all brought here under the Stars and Stripes
and
#3: General Grants wife refused to free her slaves, they had to be taken by force. A fact that has now been scrubbed from the History Books.