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That assumption you have made is not the truth...sure uncle Tom's Cabin started the movement to free slaves...but it was the FACT that outraged the South the Greatest was not the loss of Slavery...it was not being able to sell our Cotton to Europe without going through the Carpet Baggers and Scalawags up North that controlled the commodities exchanges in Chicago and New damn York...

All the textile mills up north and above the Mason Dixon line...all the old families of England controlled the price payed to the Plantations and to the small share plots manned by Whites and Freed Slaves...

France was a good Friend of the South because that wanted to buy cotton direct from the Plantations and Co-Ops

So when the economic apple cart of the New York Textile Mills and Garment Industry balked, they were shrewed enough, just as todays Democrats to lie about their real intentions and use Slavery and Liberals sensitivities to the Slavery issue to push the South to its economic limit with these low prices and and at times stolen Cargo on the Docks of New York...

Robert E Lee, did not give up his citizenship in America to fight to preserve slavery...he fought out of honor for his brothers of the South, and his Strong belief in States Rights... I would say better than 90% of Southerners never owned slaves, and for you out there who are not aware... Many Blacks owned slaves to work their own farms!

You may also remember the horrible conditions that Northern Sweat Shops and Lung and health concerns were caused by the Yankee Capitalist, using there on slave labor in the form of child labor and indentured servitude, that because of debts accrued at the company stores, never released the worker from His or Her Debt!!!