So at least a majority of the Civil War was about slaves, and a fair amount of the statues honoring Confederate soldiers were erected during a time when the south was passing the Jim Crow Laws. I will grant you that the South was decisively pro slaves. But the North was by no means anti slave. Abraham Lincoln wanted the country to stay together, he wasn't fighting to free slaves. And the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the south. Slaves in Maryland were not freed by it. Why did that not come up. And if we justifiably criticize the south for owning slaves, why don't we do it with Maryland too?\nOh, and here is where I found this information.\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Maryland