Most
historians would agree that slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War, because the issue of
slavery lay just beneath all of the more specific issues that led to secession.
After the war, Southerners would try to distance themselves from slavery as a cause of
the war, but during the secession crisis that followed Abraham Lincoln's election, proponents of
disunion openly said that they wished to leave the Union to protect slavery. In their
"Declaration of Causes" of secession, the secession convention in Georgia pointed to
"...numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding...
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