Most of Appalachia was a Unionist stronghold for that reason. Not good plantation land, so slaver power never set down deep roots - and unlike some morons in the modern day, folk at the time understood goddamn well that the war was being waged for the sake of slavery. Most Appalachian counties in the CSA offered some amount of partisan resistance during the Civil War for that very reason. If you’re gonna risk death without any hope of gain for you or your’s, may as well do it resisting a bad cause, rather than serving it.
Most of Appalachia was a Unionist stronghold for that reason. Not good plantation land, so slaver power never set down deep roots - and unlike some morons in the modern day, folk at the time understood goddamn well that the war was being waged for the sake of slavery. Most Appalachian counties in the CSA offered some amount of partisan resistance during the Civil War for that very reason. If you’re gonna risk death without any hope of gain for you or your’s, may as well do it resisting a bad cause, rather than serving it.