We could discuss the attrocities of war committed on both sides of the Civil War until Doomsday. The fact is that the majority of Confederate soldiers had never and had no wish to own slaves.
Liberal jackals hide behind the same false exploitation of class and race as they did back then to hide their true agenda which might not be so acceptable to the public.
The “downtrodden minorities” chosen to be the front for the hidden agendas always suffer the most in the end. Today, the minorities have changed but the tactic is the same. If the North had well and truly won the Civil war there would be no more Confederate rebels. Their generations continue even now. Their cause today is no more the right to own slaves than it was then. Their bloodlines and ancestry won’t allow them to bow to a tyrannical, Socialist government without a fight in today’s world any more than then.
The CSA’s own Declaration of Independence (available at http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp) goes on for the first few paragraphs regarding States rights but devolves in the last paragraphs in to a complaint that abolitionists in the North have assisted in runaway slaves and are now working to take their “property.”
Yes, this has been hashed and rehashed. It’s like a spitting contest - “Well you did this - well so did you and you also did that” and so on.