Right. Well, The War (as my Southern grandmother used to say, avoiding all the questions whether it should be called the War of Northern Agression -which made her laugh-, the War Between the States -which she used when talking to those who might not know what she meant by The War-, or the Civil War - a term she did not find nearly so objectionable as many today) was surely about things other than slavery and it was surely about slavery. I imagine the relative importance of issues varied for various Southerners. One of my Southern greatgrandfathers who supported his native Tennessee in The War also freed his 75+ slaves before The War because he believed slavery was incompatible with his being a Christian minister. Go Figure.