The Civil War and secession of the Southern states was about slavery despite what today’s revisionists say. Reading the Articles of Secession will prove that; yet the debate still rages.

the sacred heritage of honor”, but their letter of secession stated, “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery...” All Confederate monuments echo the same evil ...

The Confederate battle flag became the rallying symbol of that secession. The Civil War ended in 1865. Slavery as an institution ended, but the subjugation of African Americans continued for ...

then why did the Confederate constitution in Article 1, Section 9, prohibit the importation of any slaves from abroad? In short, there is nothing inherently wrong with secession as a last resort ...

Mike Rose (Letters to the Editor, July 15) argues that removing the Confederate battle flag from ... The Southern effort at violent secession remains fact. However, the celebratory display ...

Virginia Secession Convention: “Resolution 2: African slavery is a vital part of the social system of the States wherein it exists … any interference to its prejudice by the federal authority ...

Cerrigone (“Flag flap misinterprets Confederate legacy,” July 2 ... declaration mentions nothing but slavery as its reason for secession. Texas also gave slavery as its only reason for ...

Southerners fought the Civil War, in part, for “states rights" as well as holding people in bondage. President Lincoln believed he ended the “theory” at Appomattox with the surrender of the ...

The Civil War was not fought over slavery but over the issue of Constitutional states’ rights. The Lost Cause posited that secession was based upon the North and, thereby, the federal government ...

In his Dec. 10 letter, Daniel Mead states ... derived from primary sources such as the Confederate Constitution, firsthand reporting on the Florida Secession Convention and contemporaneous ...

Florida was the third state to secede from the Union during the Civil War. Around 15,000 Floridians ... the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." It was too remote and sparsely ...