Your intimation that we come to the table ignorant - or even worse somehow suffering from propagandists brainwashing is laughingly presumptuous and condescending. From the "off the shelf" southron revisionism you've offered thus far it is you who is seriously in a fact-deficit position.
Are you seriously contending that there is some sort of conspiracy among every public school instructor (and nearly every private school instructor) to teach a consistently across the board alternate history? Really?! When you urge us to "open our minds" do you seriously believe that we haven't also researched your resources - and rejected them?
Slavery was the sine qua non (without which not) factor in the southron rebellion. If not for the Particular Institution there would never have been the insurrection or the Civil War. That fact is simply irrefutable.
Sure, there were extenuating and mitigating circumstances but they take a distant 2nd place to slavery. And none of those circumstances ever rose to the necessary degree if intolerability necessary to establish a legitimate claim of tyranny.
Rock on ‘’rockrr’’!