Smitty
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Yeah, but you are wrong.America was not founded on it's ability to have and keep slaves which was the driving force of the creation of the conferderacy.
That is what makes your argument null.
The confederacy wasn't founded on the right to own and keep slaves any more than the original American government was. Unless you, like an idiot, are taking the position that the Southern States wouldn't have resisted British attempts to liberate their slaves at that time as well.
The American colonies, who all had legal slavery at the time of the Revolution, didn't want the British empire telling them what to do anymore.
The Confederacy faced the exact same set of circumstances 75 years later. The abolition of slavery wasn't even on the table at the time as Lincoln didn't even want to free the slaves, only limit it's expansion, so you are talking right out your ass when you say it's because they wanted to keep their slaves, since the North would have signed right off on keeping slavery legal if that was the only issue, and no civil war ever would have occurred.
They went to war for a huge multitude of reasons; the issue of abolition of slavery was no where near the primary one.