Confederates Speak: Yes, We Fought the Civil War Over Slavery
States own articles of secession say they were fighting over slavery.
As for blacks, perhaps the Southerners should have been left to what they were doing, being a white minority among slaves. That would work really well; then, their white supremacist culture screwed up the north by the fleeing slaves to Chicago and Detroit.
If one throws out Neo-Confederate historical revisionism, it should be answered.
***We Fought the Civil War Over Slavery***
Yet five SLAVE STATES remained with the UNION and did not secede. When the Civil War ended, several were still SLAVE STATES until the ratification of the 13th Amendment eight months after Lincoln was dead.
States own articles of secession say they were fighting over slavery.
This is a dishonest argument. The *UNION* did not fight the civil war over slavery. Citing what some members of secession conventions said does not address the fact that the *UNION* had no slavery related reasons for invading the South.
Why did the Union invade? Had they not invaded, there would have been no war, so the reason there was a war was because the *UNION* invaded.
Union apologists focus on "slavery" because it makes them look like they did something good, but the evidence indicates they had no intentions of destroying slavery when they sent troops into the South.
So for what reason was the war fought from the Union perspective?