Confederate Slavery and the Civil War

The civil war was started quote in the interest of slavery on both sides. The south was fighting to take slavery out of the union and the north was fighting to keep it in. Du Bois notes that many poor whites deserted the confederate army which further crippled it. It's important to ask as our contemporary society remains structured around racial capitalism what might be done in the current system in terms of mass refusal and desertion that would cause a similar effect.