So I do and don't agree with you. The south was fighting what they viewed as a tyrannical north set on removing their way of life, which was reliant on slavery. What is definitely miss taught, is most of the North wasn't abolitionists, most needed slavery as well because they sold and developed what the south produced. The main political reason at the time for ending slavery wasn't that it was immoral, it was that the low class white man couldn't compete with the cheap labor of slaves. This is way you see the fight for free states popping up in the midwest and the 3/4 law happening. For some reason the south viewed Lincoln's election as the final straw, which honestly didn't make sense. Lincoln never campaigned on releasing slaves and only did emancipation as a way to turn the tide on the war. In reality Lincoln was only elected because the Tori's and the Whigs were fighting over end/not ending slavery and Lincoln snuck in for the win. I would argue the post civil war aftermath in the south does hinder your point considering the return to essentially forced work and endentured servitude for blacks. Laws were set in place that blacks had to work and if they didn't they went to jail. And to work meant forced labor on cotton farms. Also with the substantial suppression of blacks with Jim crow laws. Most of this was due to Lincoln's asassination and the following admin screwing it up. Essentially post civil war can be viewed as an ongoing insurrection until 1782 when the north finally gave up and left. I do agree that several prominent soldiers and generals for the south were slave owners nor did they care. Lee himself didn't own slaves, but his wife did. Stonewall Jackson was deeply religious and against it. However the political powers that be in the south (plantation owners) did and desperately needed it to continue. Before you come at me with, "you're just brainwashed"...I'm from the south and too am related to a prominent civil war figure. I don't want to name the name because it would dox my last name. I've also studied the civil war heavily from all sides because it is my favorite war to study, next to Vietnam.

So I do and don't agree with you. The south was fighting what they viewed as a tyrannical north set on removing their way of life, which was reliant on slavery.

What is definitely miss taught, is most of the North wasn't abolitionists, most needed slavery as well because they sold and developed what the south produced. The main political reason at the time for ending slavery wasn't that it was immoral, it was that the low class white man couldn't compete with the cheap labor of slaves. This is way you see the fight for free states popping up in the midwest and the 3/4 law happening.

For some reason the south viewed Lincoln's election as the final straw, which honestly didn't make sense. Lincoln never campaigned on releasing slaves and only did emancipation as a way to turn the tide on the war. In reality Lincoln was only elected because the Tori's and the Whigs were fighting over end/not ending slavery and Lincoln snuck in for the win.

I would argue the post civil war aftermath in the south does hinder your point considering the return to essentially forced work and endentured servitude for blacks. Laws were set in place that blacks had to work and if they didn't they went to jail. And to work meant forced labor on cotton farms. Also with the substantial suppression of blacks with Jim crow laws. Most of this was due to Lincoln's asassination and the following admin screwing it up. Essentially post civil war can be viewed as an ongoing insurrection until 1782 when the north finally gave up and left.

I do agree that several prominent soldiers and generals for the south were slave owners nor did they care. Lee himself didn't own slaves, but his wife did. Stonewall Jackson was deeply religious and against it. However the political powers that be in the south (plantation owners) did and desperately needed it to continue.

Before you come at me with, "you're just brainwashed"...I'm from the deep south and too am related to a prominent civil war figure. I don't want to name the name because it would dox my last name. I've also studied the civil war heavily from all sides because it is my favorite war to study, next to Vietnam.