Public school is showing.....slavery existed in the north and the south....and the majority/most Confederates never owned a slave nor wanted one....
Lincoln opposed complete abolition..... In 1861, Congress had passed an act stating that all slaves employed against the Union were to be considered free. In 1862, another act stated that all slaves of men who supported the Confederacy were to be considered free. Somehow the facts get in the way of the legend....
Indeed,in the various postw it seems there is uniformity in the liberal northern “re-education” on: 1.)what the War of Southern Independence (it was NOT a civil war) decided constitutionally as regards secession (it did not decide that question at all- in a federal sense the invasion of the South by federal troops was an executive act supported by a non-representative “congress” controlled by northern industrialists and Western expansionists-railroads) and 2.)The actual causes of the secession and subsequent war. Slavery was an economic part of the raw materials (cotton, indigo,tea,rice) in question, as was the desire of New England industrialists to prevent export of Southern cotton to England and to the East India Company and the institution of selective tariffs to do this. The net result of the war was realization of cheap labor for northern owned textile mills which sprang up in the South, the illegal seizure and seizure by induced bankruptcy of property held for generations, and vast numbers of freed slaves homeless and harasses wherever they wentt.The only Amendments to come out of all this were the ones outlawing slavery and disposition of rights. Secession remains a choice of political will spelled out in the Constitution.
Whether enough citizens exist today in our bloated, addled nation of television slobs, have the fortitude to successfully secede remains in doubt. Of course such chaos would be the desired result of Cloward-Piven strategy and a great opportunity for foreign enemies, and dictatorship of marxists. Cheery thought.