I've read a lot of history, but none of those historians have been blessed with, shall we say, your imaginative view of the period. So please tell be what oppression you believed they were fighting against.
Unless you suggest that they decided on Secession because they were bored and had nothing better to do?
No, they decided to rebel to protect their institution of slavery from what they saw as the threat against its expansion posed by the Lincoln administration's opposition to it. But that is hardly oppression.
No, they decided to rebel to protect their institution of slavery from what they saw as the threat against its expansion posed by the Lincoln administration’s opposition to it. But that is hardly oppression.
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Hmmm. I am shocked. ... SHOCKED that there is nothing in your convenient abridgement of the facts about States rights.
We are not going to get anywhere here.
You have made up your mind that the South was wrong to opt for Secession.
I, on the other hand, believe they were well within their rights.
And, no, it was not all about slavery, but, yes, it was in large part about slavery. I am not thrilled to admit that part, but I do.
Nonetheless: Slavery or no, the South was within its rights to opt for secession.
Else the Declaration and Constitution were rather odd in permitting secession only one time (i.e., from England), but after that, mandatory inclusion in a union voluntarily entered in the first place.