Yes, secession was done over slavery. However, the Union fought to end secession, to preserve the Union, NOT to end slavery.
If Lincoln had stayed his hand though, I think something would of worked out in ten or twenty years at most, which would brought a re-union, AND ended slavery in the South WITHOUT over 1/2 Million dead...
If Lincoln had stayed HIS hand? If memory serves it was the Confederacy who fired on Fort Sumter and initiated the war.
...I think something would of worked out in ten or twenty years at most, which would brought a re-union, AND ended slavery in the South WITHOUT over 1/2 Million dead...
So what, in your opinion, would have caused the Confederacy to pack it in, give up their independence, and go groveling back to the U.S.? I'm curious as to what that might be.