People who argue that the south started the war ignore so many obvious points it makes my head hurt. Who are the founding fathers also proslavery? They created a country with slavery. They could’ve very easily said we’re gonna have a country with the states that do not have legalized involuntary servitude. Was George Washington evil for excepting the fact that his country would have slavery as founded? Was Lincoln that much better than Washington? Of course not.
The parallels between the South and the Founders are nearly exact. Even the British thought so at the time.
A bunch of slave owning states joined together and formed a confederacy. The Union they were leaving offered freedom to any slave that would fight for the Union. The "rebels" armies were led by a slave owning general from Virginia.
All of this is true in 1776 just as it was true in 1860. Even some of the descendants of the founders were involved, and some of the exact same states that had done it in 1776.
Lincoln hated slavery.