Quote:One last little tidbit about the "War to end Slavery"

 

In 1864, the Confederate States began to abandon slavery. There are some indications that even without a war, the Confederacy would have ended slavery. Most historians believe that the Confederacy only started to abandon slavery once their defeat was imminent. If that were true then we are to believe that the CSA wanted independence more than they wanted to hold on to slavery. The CSA’s highest ranking generals, Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston were not slave holders and did not believe in slavery. And according to an 1860 census, only 31% of families owned slaves. 75% of families that owned slaves owned less than 10 and often worked beside them in the fields. The Confederate Constitution banned the overseas slave trade, and permitted Confederate states to abolish slavery within their borders if they wanted to do so. Slavery wasn’t abolished until 1868, 3 years after the war. Thus Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland and Delaware still had slaves.

 

http://listverse.com/2010/12/06/10-surpr...nfederacy/

 

You assert that the CSA wanted independence more than they wanted to hold onto slavery.   But what was the reason they wanted independence?  

 

Read the Articles of Secession of the seceding states.   It's stated as plain as day: they wanted to secede because they wanted to keep their slaves. 

 

Here's the Georgia declaration of immediate causes, January 29, 1861: 

 

"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery."

 

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In fact, here are the ordinances of secession of South Carolina Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia.  Read them.   They all say they are seceding because of the threat to slavery coming from the North.

 

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/am...ssion.html

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