Yeah you are trying to reframe from your original position “The civil war wasn’t about slavery” To “From the perspective of the north the primary motivation

Yeah you are trying to reframe from your original position “The civil war wasn’t about slavery” To “From the perspective of the north the primary motivation was not slavery” And it’s not convincing to me or to others. The big picture here: was the civil war about slavery? I think the answer is yes, what about you?