“Did most Southerners fight to defend the institution of slavery?”
If they took an oath to defend the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, that also meant protecting negro slavery in the Confederate States of America.
“so their 3 rich neighbors down the street could own slaves?”
If their rich neighbors down the street owned 20 or more slaves they were exempt from the Confederate Draft.
I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED, that RICH PEOPLE manage to get laws passed to advance their positions (at the expense of “the common folk”) & further enrich themselves.
(Just as the police commander in the movie CASBLANCA was “shocked” to discover that gambling was happening at RICK’S AMERICAN CAFE.)
Nonetheless, what was good for the small minority of “plantation aristocrats” was NOT good for the mass of CSA citizens & “non slave-owners”, like the members of our large/extended family, resented the “special laws” for the RICH “big shots”.
As I’ve said elsewhere, as many “aristocrats” collaborated with the Union Army (in return for written promises that they could keep their slaves PERMANENTLY). - Had our Southern ancestors actually won their war for Southern FREEDOM, the “plantation aristocrats” would have had to LEAVE the new Southern Nation(as the Tories did after the AWI) or likely be tried/hanged for their treason.
(The lot of an enemy collaborator after a war is frequently UNPLEASANT.)
Yours, TMN78247
I’m SHOCKED, SHOCKED, that RICH PEOPLE manage to get laws passed to advance their positions (at the expense of “the common folk”) & further enrich themselves.
(Just as the police commander in the movie CASBLANCA was “shocked” to discover that gambling was happening at RICK’S AMERICAN CAFE.)
Nonetheless, what was good for the small minority of “plantation aristocrats” was NOT good for the mass of CSA citizens & “non slave-owners”, like the members of our large/extended family, resented the “special laws” for the RICH “big shots”.
As I’ve said elsewhere, as many “aristocrats” collaborated with the Union Army (in return for written promises that they could keep their slaves PERMANENTLY). - Had our Southern ancestors actually won their war for Southern FREEDOM, the “plantation aristocrats” would have had to LEAVE the new Southern Nation(as the Tories did after the AWI) or likely be tried/hanged for their treason.
(The lot of an enemy collaborator after a war is frequently UNPLEASANT.)
Yours, TMN78247