To this day people will tell you the war was not about slavery, but that is a lie. Yes, the war was also fought to preserve the union, but let us not forget that the union was being pulled apart because a vast group of people wanted to preserve the institutionalized violence and subjugation that was the slavery system.
The secessionist states were clear why they were leaving the union; it was about slavery and only about slavery. Secessionist traitors were not just suiting up to create a new country; they were suiting up to enslave people and preserve a system of violent subjugation targeting men, women, children, and families.
|Custer and other men with dog.|
|Slaves, Northern Virginia|
|A lot of men signed up for the glory of war.|
|Civil War death data does not cover the full extent of the horror.|
|This is what the secessionist states sought to preserve.|