No, it wasnt all about slavery but it was a hot issues, bleeding Kansas, Harpers Ferry, Nat Turner's rebellion..well I'm not sure what that has to do with it but I needed three examples We were expanding into the West and everyone and their brother was fighting to see which states would be free and which ones werent. Sure the North has slaves. But Northen economy didnt demand that they needed em and the majority of those slaves were domestic. Families who did have them had one maybe two. The majority of people in the south didnt own slaves. Only a handful of large plantation owners did. Yes there were blacks who owned slaves, but their numbers were few and far between. The Confederate flag has been tied to the South and slavery. I'm not sure it can sperated. It is seen as one now. Still, I just want the flag on the damn G. Lee