73 Video showing that Virginia man with a newly-sewn confederate flag patch at a Youngkin rally was indeed fake (twitter.com) posted 3 years ago by YesMovement 3 years ago by YesMovement +74 / -1 18 comments share 18 comments share save hide report block hide replies
If it was about slavery, no one in the south would have fought. They didn't own slaves.
The North wouldnt have fought to free slaves either.
Slavery was abolished to economically punish the defeated south.
It wasn't about slavery for the common people, no, of course not. That's part of the reason the flag wasn't seen that way by the layman.
It was absolutely about slavery for their ruling elite, though. The people almost never fight for the same reason their leaders initiate the war.