Any time some one asks me why the Civil War happened, or does the “wasn’t about slavery” dance, I simply point them to the original Articles of Secession from every Confederate state….they’re all online. Then point out “slavery” tends to be in paragraph 1 or 2 and throughout the documents.

Original sources, how do they work?

I also suggest they try picking up a book and reading American Nations as to why the Confederacy was backed into an economic corner. Agrarian economy based on basically free slave labor. Then they wrapped it all in a pretty flag and sent their men off to die.

I have Confederate soldiers buried in my family plot. I know why they fought. I can respect my ancestors without honoring their cause. Scots Irish out of Kentucky. They were going to fight SOMEONE.