1. the presence of over 100,000 black volunteers in the rebel military ALONE should tell you that the war was NOT about the preservation of chattel slavery. (unless you believe that black people weren't intelligent enough to know what they were fighting for)
2. the preservation of slavery was only important to the 5-6% of persons who owned slaves. (further, all too many of the slaveowning elites collaborated with the enemy! had we won our war against the damnyankees, the southern elites would have been NEXT on the list of enemies.) the war was a PEASANT UPRISING against all of the powerful interests, north AND south.
3.as >98% of southern soldiers, sailors & marines were POOR and owned no slaves, they certainly would NOT have fought to allow someone else to own slaves.
4. about the same percentage of northerners owned slaves as southerners AND documents still exist that prove that the damnyankee high command & some lincoln regime civilan leaders intended to continue using slave labor until at least mid-'63.
the conclusion is INESCAPABLE: the WBTS was ONLY about FREEDOM for the southland. all other issues are minor in comparison to that ONE great truth.
free dixie,sw
Impressive. One doesn't meet many Confederate bolsheviks.