‘Slavery was a small part of the cause of the Civil War and the formation of the Confederate States...’
sigh, here we go again; please read the Articles of Secession of the states of Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas...and come back and tell us what you learned...
We’re not going anywhere...The southern states were producing cotton that was being sent to Europe, who demanded a lot of it...it was also being tariffed and the southern states were not only paying the tariff but giving the northern states who were acting as “middlemen” in the sale enormous profit and they were not paying any part of the tariffs...The only way the south figured to make to best profit off their product was seccession and dealing with Europe themselves...As part of the US, they could not do this...
Do a little study yourself and you’ll find that there were MORE slaves owned in the northern states than is the south...Slavery became a big issue when Lincoln decided that would create diversion and division in the south...
Lincoln actually would like to have been able to ship slaves back to their homeland, but the northern owners would hear nothing of that....
Of course the south didn’t want to lose slavery as that was the main tool for harvesting their cotton crop, but it was NOT a main issue in the war...