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The ice-cream aficionado is right
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It was about states' rights.
Specifically, the confederacy took away their member states' right to abolish slavery.
From my understanding, it was originally about taxes. The southern states wanted their slaves to count as population for the purposes of representation within Congress, but they wanted the slaves to not count as population towards taxes owed.
The northern states said fuck that noise so the southern states seceded. Hence the war started, and only then was the emancipation proclamation signed, which stripped rebelling(and only rebelling) states from owning slaves. After the war, the 13th amendment was signed which actually banned slavery.
Edit:also look into the 3/5ths compromise.
Don't forget the Electoral College there too... They get electors based on a non-voting population