100% about slavery (from the mouth of the southern states themselves):
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
That was just the first result from searching for "letters of secession"
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declarati...
That was just the first result from searching for "letters of secession"
Saying the civil war is not about slavery because the invasion was about responding to Confederate belligerence is like saying that someone who died with Covid-19 actually died from heart failure. You might be technically correct (most people's hearts fail when they die), but it's at best pedantic and at worst disingenuous.