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The causes of secession were controversial but not complex as your article states:

The best resource is "Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War" by Charles B Dew The passionate words of the Secession Commissioners themselves explain their reasons for seceding as they labor to convince each slaveholding state of the necessity to join the confederacy to preserve slavery and “the sacred purity of our daughters” and avoid the degradation of “associating with free negroes upon terms of political and social equality.”