Brett you may be right about the technical details but the Civil War was absolutely about slavery. And the Black Codes shortly thereafter criminalized not having a job so that newly freed blacks would be sent to prison and then used as free convict labor. Black communities who found success like in Tulsa were destroyed by whites. And then we have Jim Crow which was still on the books when I was born and lynchings and racial terror. I hope you can reflect on these things.