Lincoln didn’t want the Slavers war but when it came to him he didn’t shirk his responsibilities. After the war was won he didn’t want lingering animosities - he wished to bind the wounds and go back to being Americans. He had no fire in the belly to pursue treason charges against southerners - even those who had acted in truly treasonous ways.
After his assassination there were those who sought revenge but Andrew Johnson devised a reconstruction plan that largely honored Lincoln’s wishes. His primary goal was to wrest control in the south from the slaver aristocracy to the people. The republicans in congress found ways to circumvent those changes in their continuing efforts to punish the south for its rebellion. And the southern slaver aristocrats found ways to circumvent THOSE changes by imposing Jim Crow laws.
“His primary goal was to wrest control in the south from the slaver aristocracy to the people.”
So Johnson was Karl Marx’s spiritual ancestor. Thanks for clarifying that.
Problem identified. You, like most northerners, want to view the history of human bondage and racialism as a Southern problem, and not a global problem - certainly never as problem in the northern states.
The whole truth is usually in the details. In your posts I don't often see references to the northern colonies writing the preservation of human bondage into the Declaration of Independence, or of the northern states writing the peculiar institution into the Constitution.
I see no mention in your posts of northern approval of southern de jure segregation of the races, or the equally brutal northern de facto segregation of the races.
But hey, you are in emotional synchronization with Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln, it is said, “freed the slaves.”
In other words, cheap grace.