You can pull the discussion all over the place Reb but it isn’t going to work.
The South choose secession as a means to preserve the economic system of slave labor.
They choose war to achieve this and lost.Did slavery exist in the North?. Yeah. But it was ended long before 1861.
Get over it.
The South was defeated by the most powerful slave-owning nation in the world - the United States.
Twice Lincoln took an oath to defend and protect the pro-slavery U.S. Constitution.
I had expected the history professor to come boiling in to rescue you by now. You have already made far too many admissions.