“Other historical revisionists want us to believe that it wasn’t about slavery and it wasn’t a rebellion.”
I have to ask: if the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?
And you have asked.
“I have to ask: if the South was fighting for slavery, who was fighting against slavery?”
The conventional wisdom is that the slave state of Maryland sent troops to fight the slave state of Virginia for the purpose of fighting slavery.
And, the slave state of Delaware sent troops to fight the slave state of North Carolina for the purpose of fighting slavery.
And, the slave state of Kentucky sent troops to fight the slave state of Tennessee for the purpose of fighting slavery.
And the slave state of Missouri . . . and so forth and so on.
And after the Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln added a slave state to the Union . . . for the purpose of fighting slavery.
But I don’t understand conventional wisdom. It sounds like something the victors made up.