like MOST things said/done by the "lincoln gang of merrily corrupt politicians", those "guarantees" were BOGUS & worth NOTHING.
the FACTS are that the dixie war for FREEDOM was NOT about "preserving the peculiar institution" for ANYONE except the 5-6% of southerners, who actually OWNED slaves. HARDLY anyone else cared a damn about the slavers"right to trade in human flesh".
face it, DM, what you believe is a PACK of KNOWING LIES, which are PROPAGANDA out of the MOST extreme, lunatic fringe of REVISIONIST historiography. there is nothing more,nothing less to this situation than that.
frankly, NO traditional scholar would do anything but laugh AT you, if you said those things in their presence.
free dixie,sw
I agree that the people who thought to benefit from the rebellion were only 5 to 6 percent of the south.
You must agree that those were the people who had control of the state legislatures who rebelled, drafted the articles of secesssion, conscripted the common man into state regiments, fired on Ft. Sumpter.
The end of slavery in the south marked the end of oppression of the many by that 5 or 6 percent, at least until the end of reconstruction put many of those same people back in charge.