Thanks. I've only been studying this subject for a few years. Several years ago I still believed the same thing everyone else believes, but then I started noticing things that didn't make any sense in light of what we were told.
I had never heard of the "Corwin Amendment"? Came as a shock to me. Showed me right away that the war really wasn't about slavery, it was about controlling the economics of the South.
Lincoln conscripted people to fight the war. Conscription is slavery. It’s ridiculous to enslave people and claim one is fighting slavery.
I've always wanted to hear how conscription is not a violation of the 13th amendment.
The war turned a voluntary union of states into a country of states kept by force.
Yes it did.
“ I had never heard of the “Corwin Amendment”? Came as a shock to me. Showed me right away that the war really wasn’t about slavery, it was about controlling the economics of the South.”
Because the federal government wanted to maintain the Union! My God are you dense! It was the SOUTH that feared abolition. They didn’t trust any sort of compromise and said so at the time!
Then read the Arver v. United States (245 U.S. 366) Supreme Court decision.