The real issue is government power and taxation, same as it was in 1776.
Slavery is just propaganda.
More and more, it appears to me to be an issue of the "aristocracy" of the South wanting to preserve its power, and especially, its "peculiar institution".
Quite understandable.
The war between the states was a terrible disaster for everyone, especially for the South. Both sides thought they would easily win. It ramped up from there.
Slavery was on its way out, in large part because of the industrial revolution. An amazing thing to see an institution which had survived for thousands of years, destroyed in most of the world where Western Civilization could reach, in a few decades.
It had always been questionable in Christendom. Industrialization provided the lever to topple it.
Exactly. Slavery is just the window dressing Leftists in Academia started using to try to demonize and delegitimize first the South and then all of America.
It has been obvious this is what their game plan was right from the start. I said this IN COLLEGE back in the early 1990s. It was that obvious to me even then when they started really pushing this crap....suddenly the Confederate Flag was supposedly oh so eeeeeevil and wrong....hello Dukes of Hazzard, Lynyrd Skynyrd, mud flaps on big rigs and everywhere else NOW it suddenly means anybody displaying it hates Black people? GMAFB.
Its sad to me that some who claim to be Conservatives actually fall for this BS.