Comments by "" (@neutronalchemist3241) on "Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history - Karen L. Cox" video.

The myth started before the end of the war. When Confederates where seeking for support in Europe. Slavery was absolutely unpopular there, so they came up with a series of alternative reasons that made them look like a rural utopia threatened by the expansionism of the greedy US.
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So why the Confederate Constitution made slavery MANDATORY for every present and future Confederate state? No states rights there. MANDATORY SLAVERY.
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Yeah. Economic situation of owning vs. not owning slaves.
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Uh... no. Industrial complex wasn't against plantations at all. The south was deeply integrated into industrial economy. Not only US industrial economy. It exported cotton in all the world, and cotton fabric was one of the industrial product par excellence. BUT, other than in the south, the more time passed, the less people thought slavery was a viable social system. That had been many clashes on that. The majority in the parliament was clearly switching in favor of abolitionists. Lincoln had been elected on a platform that included the prohibition of slavery in all the new states and territories. What the future confederates knew was that slavery was at its end, and they wanted to prevent that.
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So why the Confederate Constitution made slavery MANDATORY for every present and future Confederate state? No states rights there. MANDATORY SLAVERY.
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@boardtodeath46 Who fought the civil rights battle?
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The north industrialist complex wasn't against the southern plantation industry in the slightest. They complemented each-other. Industries transformed what plantations produced. Confederates made the cause of the secession EXTREMELY clear. The Confederate Constitution made slavery MANDATORY for every present and future Confederate state. No states rights there. MANDATORY SLAVERY. That's what they cared about. "there were other forces at work" There are ALWAYS forces at work. It had not been over those forces that the Confederates seceded. it had been over SLAVERY. That's it.
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There are always economic forces at work, but those didn't trigger nor the secession nor the war. The northern industrialist complex wasn't against the southern plantation industry in the slightest. They complemented each-other. Industries transformed what plantations produced. The switch from an agricultural society to an industrial one happened everywhere, and nothing could have stopped it. Certainly not the secession, that could only damage the southern economy, by making selling their products in the north more difficult. What secessionist cared about was owning slaves. They made that EXTREMELY clear. The Confederate Constitution made slavery MANDATORY for every present and future Confederate state. No states rights there. MANDATORY SLAVERY. That's what they cared about.
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@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 Yeah. the "vicious intermeddling of too many of the citizens of the Northern States with the constitutional rights of the Southern States" to enslave people. That's why the Confederate Constitution made mandatory for every Confederate state, present and future to allow slavery. That was the only constitutional right the Confederates cared about. So much to turn it into a constitutional duty.
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@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 Yeah. the "vicious intermeddling of too many of the citizens of the Northern States with the constitutional rights of the Southern States" to enslave people. That's why the Confederate Constitution made mandatory for every Confederate state, present and future to allow slavery. That was the only constitutional right the Confederates cared about. So much to turn it into a constitutional duty.
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Keeping the slavery was the true goal of the Confederates. Ending it was not the true goal of the unionist. Keeping the Union was their goal. Had not them seceded, Slavery in southern states would have continued for decades.
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