you are a very confused individual.they were traitors to the crown - fighting a just fight against tyranny.those people should be ashamed of the traitors in their family treePeoples families fought in that war.
Do you include those who had family members that fought in the Revolutionary War? They were traitors.
the confederacy was fighting against a representative republic to keep the right to own people as property. there is no comparison
The confederacy was fighting against what they considered tyranny of an overbearing federal government just like the colonists. That you can't see it proves you know nothing of history.
In other words, you justify what you consider traitorous activity. That makes you a traitor.
what they thiught their reasons were is irrelevant to their status as traitors.
and they had representation in government.
just because they could read the writing on the wall and saw that slavery would come to an wnd over their objections does not make them noble or in any way justified