“I don’t think that the glory days of the Confederacy has anything to do with slavery.”
The Confederacy was all about slavery.
That is just incorrect. Very few people in the south even owned slaves. The Confederacy was a rebellion against the Federal govt deciding that it could tell the states what to do.
Don’t you find it interesting that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the rebellious parts of the south, but allowed Union states and certain “non-rebellious” parishes of Louisiana to keep their slaves?
Slavery happened to be the issue that created the fissure. But most confederates didn’t own slaves, and many were opposed to the practice. Doesn’t mean that they thought it was ok for Lincoln to declare war on them.
I am one who would have vocally opposed slavery along with the other Christians who did the same.