Well if they had just stayed in the Union, slavery would have been permanent. If they hadn't tried to escape Washington, the United States would probably still have legal slavery.
Sorta makes you think that Lincoln really didn't fight the war over slavery.
Nonsense. Your stuff isn't new, and it certainly isn't true. It's what Americans were being taught for decades in the interests of "national unity."
Well I don't know about you, but when I went to school, nobody ever taught us that Lincoln sent a war fleet to Charleston with orders to attack the Confederates.
I never learned anything about that war fleet until the last two years. I also didn't know Lincoln was going to make slavery permanent if he could just keep control over the Southern states. They didn't teach us that in school either.
Would say you went to School in the 50s as I did. Oh what a bunch of dummies we are.
I don't think so. Sentiment in both North and South was moving against it. The plantation economy was doomed by economics, and I seriously doubt it would have survived much past 1880-90.
The biggest problem is that the Republicans wanted to free the slaves by fiat, which meant financial ruin for many in the South, pro-slavery or not. If the Republicans had proposed an approach that would reimburse the slave-owners for their monetary value, the Civil War likely would not have happened. And it would probably have been cheaper overall.