text: Have you ever read any of the secession declarations? They are specific that they are seceding to maintain slavery. From two of the secession declarations at  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/csapage.asp
  
  Mississippi: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world."
  
  Texas: "That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding states."
  
  No, the Confederacy was all about slavery