text: Lincoln disregarded Dred Scott and he was supported by his cronies.  Just a fact.
  
  No law prevented a state from seceding in 1861.
  
  Again, the federal government confiscated Southern property within their lines.
  
  Your description of slave quarters is again quite false as is your ridiculous, histrionic distortion of the treatment given to the very few slaves who tried to escape.
  
  It's noteworthy that between 1861 and 1865 there were no slave rebellions and just a tiny fraction of slaves ever attempted to escape.  This was when about 95% of Southern men were defending their homeland against the Yank invaders who vandalized, looted, raped, burned, and murdered their way through the South.  Milosevic's barbarians in Croatia and Bosnia carried out depredations to the civilian population similar to those carried out by the war criminals Sheridan, Grant, and Sherman against the Southern civilians.  A fact you ignore.
  
  Your fairy-tale Yank mythology is similar to Zander's false narrative.