OMG! I've never heard this before! Oh wait. It's all I ever do hear. It's chanted like a mantra. It's repeated constantly by everyone, despite the proof (which i've shown numerous times) that there was no intent by anyone to get rid of slavery in 1861. Indeed, Lincoln was urging the passage of an amendment to make slavery permanent.
But people have their propaganda which they have to repeat over and over again, and they simply will not look at anything which contradicts their brainwashing.
Now can we get back to looking at who makes money and who loses money?
You haven’t proved anything except that you can’t see reality. That there was no effort to repeal slavery didn’t stop Southern politicians from seeing Lincoln as the bogieman who was going to do so.
Both Southern plantation owners and Northen businessmen made money. Can we get back to why Johnny Reb himself said he went sesech?