Are you sure about that? After all, while the richer Southerners may have owned slaves, the vast majority of Southerners did not own slaves. Those majorities made up the armies that the North eventually crushed when they invaded the South. I’m sorry, but men don’t fight and die for something that doesn’t concern them, and slavery didn’t concern the majority of the South despite the efforts to revise our history. Their fight was over the rights of the States to determine their own future.
Unlike the North, the South had men of all classes (rich and poor) fighting for their side. The North allowed the wealthy to buy their way out of the draft ($300). This caused riots in the North, as only poor males were being conscripted (America’s nastiest riot ever was the NYC draft riots in 1863)
Rights of states to do what?