Slavery was obviously involved and the Confederate States may have never ended slavery, ever, if they were allowed to keep their values/beliefs without the influence of those who opposed them. But the core essence of the war wasn't over slavery but over the Republicans trying to force their cultural dominance on the Confederate States.
Arguably, slavery was on its way out among people in the Confederate States anyway and it was simply used as a tool by the Republicans to help them in the war. It's argued slavery would have likely been mostly gone and ended in the Confederate States over time and perhaps it was accelerated.
In any case, anyone thinking about this objectively really needs to think about the idea that a bunch of rich powerful guys got together and decided to start a war to free slaves because they cared that much about black people and freeing slaves, these powerful white men were willing to go to war and potentially lose over it? No, there's much more to it than that.
Slavery was obviously involved and the Confederate States may have never ended slavery, ever, if they were allowed to keep their values/beliefs without the influence of those who opposed them. But the core essence of the war wasn't over slavery but over the Republicans trying to force their cultural dominance on the Confederate States.
Arguably, slavery was on its way out among people in the Confederate States anyway and it was simply used as a tool by the Republicans to help them in the war. It's argued slavery would have likely been mostly gone and ended in the Confederate States over time and perhaps it was accelerated.
In any case, anyone thinking about this objectively really needs to think about the idea that a bunch of rich powerful guys got together and decided to start a war to free slaves because they cared that much about black people and freeing slaves, these powerful white men were willing to go to war and potentially lose over it? No, there's much more to it than that.