Quote: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

 

That was the upper class of the CSA, the majority of the soldiers that fought in the CSA didn't hold slaves, never would have held slaves, and many of them didn't even agree with slavery. It was a war over the right to leave a union they believed they had the right to leave.

 

I pointed out earlier two of the highest generals in the Confederate Army didn't even hold slaves and did not believe in slavery, there was also Union States that where slave states.

 

Saying the Civil War was about Slavery is as accurate as saying World War II was about Jews.

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