[Non-Sequitur]

the war was about just ONE thing: DIXIE FREEDOM.

For the 65% or so of the non-slave population, of course.

[stand watie]

almost nobody in 1861, either north or south, cared what slaves thought or didn't think, including your clayfooted saint, abe the first of damnyankeeland.

the inconvienient truth for damnyankee revisionists was/IS that blacks, reds, browns & asians in the southland were on the whole just as pro-dixie independence as the white population was.

free dixie,sw