• caboose2006@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Yes, you’re that wrong. It was about slavery from the start. Read the letters if secession and the confederate constitution. Slavery is explicitly mentioned as a reason for secession several times and the constitution is virtually the same as the US constitution but with the explicit inclusion of slavery.

    The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States | American Battlefield Trust https://share.google/apb20y4F1EStHk7pE