the WBTS was ONLY a "crusade against slavery" AFTER the war was won by the north & a MILLION PEOPLE had NEEDLESSLY died for NO GOOD PURPOSE.
THEN & only then did the SELF-righteous DAMNyankee elites start prattling on & on, ad nauseum about slavery.
face it, you have been LIED TO & made a FOOL of, by the northeastern, SOCIALIST, SELF-righteous, LEFTIST financial/social/academic/intellectual elites.
our 100,000+ Black Confederate volunteers fought for LIBERTY, just as my AmerIndian ancestor did. they owned NO SLAVES. (neither did my ancestor.)
free dixie,sw
I think of it more as a crusade for the institution.