It existed but it nothing to do with the reasons for the war. The war was rooted in the desire of the South to be free from Northern authority and more substantially, an imperalistic desire among the leadership in the South to form a pan-Caribbean empire with other primarily agricultural societies in Latin America.
It’s one reason Southerners ended up going to Brazil because they viewed the war as leading to the inevitable destruction of the Southern agrarian-foreign trade based society.
Of course not.
The war was rooted in the desire of the South to be free from Northern authority...
And the fact that this desire suddenly manifested itself with the election of a President opposed to the expansion of slavery was purely coincidental, right?
It’s one reason Southerners ended up going to Brazil because they viewed the war as leading to the inevitable destruction of the Southern agrarian-foreign trade based society.
They went to Brazil because once their rebellion was over that was about the last place where slavery was legal.
Why did the South want to be free from Northern authority? What was the main problem with the North?