You and dragonwriter keep repeating the false statement.
> The South seceded due to slavery.
No. They left after the north raised the tariff. They justified the secession on states' rights ( one of the notable being slavery ).
The south didn't secede after the north freed the slaves, threatened to free the slaves, etc. They left after they lost a decades long tariff battle to the north. The fight in the first part of the 1800s wasn't over slavery. The major fight between the north and south was tariffs/trade. It was industrialization vs agricultralism. It was never about slavery because some northern states also had slavery before and during the civil war.
If the civil war was about slavery, why didn't delaware and maryland also secede with slave owning states?
Why did west virginia secede from virginia? Could it be because west virginia major industries sold minerals, coal, etc to the industrial north? While the rest of virginia was agriculturally based?
South Carolina seceded around a month later, on December 20, 1860 [1]. Georgia began drafting a new constitution in January 1861[2], after voting to secede a few days earlier.
The Morill Tariff passed in the senate on Feb 20, 1861, two months after SC seceded, and one month after GA.[3]
It's rich of you to call everyone else's statement false when you're the one promoting ignoring the primary texts including the declarations of secession of the states in favor of your hypothetical 15-decade-later mindreading.
But all your questions have answers if you actually looked shit up instead of being suckered into being a mouthpiece for historical revisionism to deflect attention from the sins of the past.
West Virginia split because they didn't want to secede. Did they want to stay because of economic reasons? It doesn't really matter to this question, the war was started by states secession, so the reason for the first move is what matters.
Maryland and Delaware were further north and less dominated by slave-holders than the states that did secede. Anti-slavery sentiment in the pre-war US was very geographically distributed, after all. It was actively debated and voted on, but it didn't carry the day.
"Slavery had been a divisive issue in Delaware for decades before the American Civil War began. Opposition to slavery in Delaware, imported from Quaker-dominated Pennsylvania, led many slaveowners to free their slaves; half of the state's black population was free by 1810, and more than 90% were free by 1860."
> why didn't delaware and maryland also secede with slave owning states?
Have you looked at a map to see where they are? They would've been curbstomped fairly quickly if they tried. And although slavery was legal in Delaware, 91% of the Black population there was free at the start of the ACW.[1]
> The south didn't secede after the north freed the slaves, threatened to free the slaves,
The South seceded because they feared the North would free the slaves.
> Why did west virginia secede from virginia?
Because they disagreed with Virginia's secession from the United States.
> The South seceded due to slavery.
No. They left after the north raised the tariff. They justified the secession on states' rights ( one of the notable being slavery ).
The south didn't secede after the north freed the slaves, threatened to free the slaves, etc. They left after they lost a decades long tariff battle to the north. The fight in the first part of the 1800s wasn't over slavery. The major fight between the north and south was tariffs/trade. It was industrialization vs agricultralism. It was never about slavery because some northern states also had slavery before and during the civil war.
If the civil war was about slavery, why didn't delaware and maryland also secede with slave owning states?
Why did west virginia secede from virginia? Could it be because west virginia major industries sold minerals, coal, etc to the industrial north? While the rest of virginia was agriculturally based?