re: Was slavery an important factor in the Civil War?

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However no complaint, concern or even remotely expressed interest from you and your Marxist ilk

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So because someone sees confederate statues as problematic you call them a Marxist? You do realize this is the same type of thing as when liberals call everyone who supports Trump a racist right? If you call everyone a “Marxist” it losing it’s meaning.

Absolutely. It’s in writing that that was part of the reason they wanted to secede from the union

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HOWEVER, people get wya to altruistic about why the North decided they needed to go to war to keep the South From seceding. It was to preserve the Union.

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Given the North's lust for tariffs the South was paying and the South as a captive market, that Union was more than some noble idea.

The tariffs resulted in a northern economic boom and a southern decade long depression. Can't imagine why anyone would want to leave that kind of relationship.

You act as it because it is easy to be against confederate monuments, and hard to stop modern day slavery, that we shouldn’t do the former. It would be like donating to a charity to end hunger in your community and someone else saying “yea but you haven’t done one single thing to help cure child leukemia!”

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Did the Confederacy want to keep slavery legal?

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If you read Bruce Cattons accounts of the civil war (and I highly recommend him), he uses primary source material in the form of interviews, letters, official documents to paint a pretty sold picture of what folks were doing in and before the civil war. And from his accounts neither side cared about slavery at all levels of life. Neither side was willing to send their sons or fathers to fight for slaves on either side. When Lincoln did his emancipation proclamation there were race riots in northern cities were folks blamed blacks for the war. In the south it was almost universally fighting and dying for a state or a fight against factory owners(northern factories were considered prison like, an attitude that lasted through reconstruction in terms like linthead). There were real fears the Army of the Potomac would just go home or vote for McClallen and ending the war. Fortunately McClallen was not as popular as he was thought to be and Lincoln was able to finish the war. Few abolitionist fought directly for the north. Most were pacifist and while content to use others to push a cause, rarely joined the fighting.

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Also most of these statues were not built right after the war, but rather later during the Civil Rights movement and Jim Crowe in order to send a message that their was a status quo that was going to be maintained

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I’m sure some were built to thump their nose at the civil rights movement. But most were put up by wives, daughters, family of those that were killed in the war. Many romanticized the idea of the lost cause not because of slavery but because of a strong English tradition of doing so. The cavaliers lost to the roundheads but the mystique of the cavaliers lies on while the roundheads are relegated to history. The Scottish have the Jacobites, the legend of King Arthur and Camelot both lost causes romanticized in popular culture. Southerners saw themselves as the English saw those examples, King Harold fighting the Normans

Slavery is at best in the background of the imagery of the Antebellum south and the civil war. The statues are more a tribute in the English style than a bygone threat.

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Absolutely. It’s in writing that that was part of the reason they wanted to secede from the union

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Abraham Lincoln on Southern slavery:

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Letter to Alexander Stevens:

Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would,directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears.
The South would be in no more danger in this respect, than it was in the days of Washington. I suppose, however, this does not meet the case. You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is?wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us.

1860 Inaugural Address:

I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that "I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so." Those who nominated and elected me did so with full knowledge that I had made this, and many similar declarations, and had never recanted them.

Letter to Horace Greeley:

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.

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In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.”

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LINK- Constitution of the confederate statesConstitution of the confederate states.

So yes

CSA wanted future states/territories to be able to choose if they wanted slavery among other things

USA wanted to keep slavery contained to the South.

The short answer is the war was about both states' rights and slavery but the CSA didn't go to war to keep their slaves.

Oh the irony

More Republicans voted for NAFTA than Democrats.