[RegulatorCountry]

Sort of puts a dent in the popular conception of the North fighting to free the slaves, doesn’t it? They were fighting to keep slave states in the Union.

[Bull Snipe]

Lincoln had no constitutional authority to free those slaves in States that remained in the Union.

[rockrr]

Sort of puts a dent in the popular conception of the North fighting to free the slaves, doesn’t it?

Who is making that claim?