[FLT-bird]

You didn’t answer my question. If the war wasn't about slavery, in your view, would the South have ended or continued it? And why did the Confederacy enshrine slavery in it's Constitution? Oh but I did answer your question. It would have ended in the Southern states before too much longer just like it ended everywhere else in the Western world before too much longer. Why did the Confederacy enshrine slavery in its Constitution just like Lincoln and the North offered to do with the US Constitution? Explicitly I mean since we all know the US Constitution had a fugitive slave clause and the 3/5s compromise. I dunno. Chits and giggles perhaps.

[jmacusa]

Your side likes to use the argument of ‘’states rights’’ over the issue of secession. Well, which states rights specifically were worth splitting the nation in two and causing the deaths over some 700,000 people?

[rockrr]

Why did the Confederacy enshrine slavery in its Constitution just like Lincoln and the North offered to do with the US Constitution?

Trick question. The confed constitution (such as it was) "enshrined" slavery but the US Constitution did not.