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Yes sir, I agree had the Confederacy taken that to heart and freed the slave's before they fired on Fort Sumter, the Confederacy would have won their Independence.

[Non-Sequitur]

Yes sir, I agree had the Confederacy taken that to heart and freed the slave's before they fired on Fort Sumter, the Confederacy would have won their Independence.

If the confederacy had freed their slaves before firing on Sumter then what would they have had to rebel over?