Well the Vice President of the Confederacy [1] and the declaration of causes published by many of the states made it pretty clear that it was about slavery. [1

Well the Vice President of the Confederacy [1] and the declaration of causes published by many of the states made it pretty clear that it was about slavery. [1] "The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions--African slavery as it exists among us--the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution [...] The general opinion of the men of that day [Revolutionary Period] was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution [slavery] would be evanescent and pass away [...] Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition."