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Most of the states cited the owning slaves as their cause for succeeding in their Articles/Causes of Succession.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/secession-acts-thirteen-confederate-states
I want to say 3 of them didn’t mention it directly. Three.
I was trying to make an it takes two to tango argument by saying that the North only went to war because of the South’s secession, not because they wanted to end slavery (either motivation would be just and correct, don’t get me wrong; I did say I was being pedantic). I mean turns out I was wrong because the North was committed to fighting, though not necessarily ending, slavery from the start so the war was about slavery as much as it was about secession.