Many of them were, including Robert E. Lee.
Others were still needed to run the plantations.
The ones fighting for the South - the cotton-growing slave-states.
It was a factor, but not a sole cause. Most Southerners were not slave owners, and had zero interest in fighting for the sake of slave owners.
Union fought to free slaves, Confederate fought to stay slave states.
slave trade was when the masters that owned the slaves would sale them and other masters would buy them.
Masters or just plain slave owners
slave masters wanted to erase the slaves' cultural identity.
it was a way that slave masters knew that the slave were kept in order.
Because, they were property to their slave masters, and the slave masters could do anything that they wanted to the slaves in order for the slaves to keep their lives.
slave masters wanted to erase the slaves' cultural identity.
probably horrible things...
Hell No.
You can guarantee that