Talk politics.

It was the reason they fought. If they didn't give a damn about it, they would have simply abolished it in 1862 and undercut the Union's big moral advantage from the get-go and removed their biggest obstacle to foreign recognition. Instead the CSA approved a Commissar Order aimed at USCT and sentenced thousands of POWs on both sides to death so they wouldn't have to treat black soldiers as equals and quashed Cleburne's memorial that they should abolish slavery to find a large amount of new, willing manpower. Then refusing to consider changes in slavery until the day before the Union Army took Richmond. To claim slavery was one of many reasons is a great big lie, it was the reason of all reasons. Of course because the CSA fought for slavery did not mean the USA was fighting for freedom and abolition....