“[Union] had a lot of slave states on their side too.”
Five, iirc, not a small % of the Union states.
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Missouri.
Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Missouri.
As is probably obvious to anyone not fooled by revisionist history, one would think that if slavery was why they were fighting the war, they would have abolished it in their own states first.
Obviously slavery was not their motivation, but they keep claiming that it was because it sounds more noble than the truth.