[DiogenesLamp]

Because they couldn't have slavery if they remained in the Union? Are you nuts? The Union had slavery all through the war, and for six months after it.

Had they remained in the Union, it was literally impossible to abolish slavery, so your claim doesn't even make sense.

[Timmy]

Your reply makes no sense to any statement I made. My point was that, if slavery did not exist, there would have been no war. Therefore, slavery was clearly the cause of the conflict.