Lets turn it around, could the United States have gained its independence without the support of slave owning states? If you say yes, please explain.
Impy, you never answered my question. I know slave owners are next to Satan, but how did Lincoln find himself President of the US if not for all those slave owners that created the US? What changed?
I don’t say yes, I agree with you that the answer is no.
And I don’t think they were Satan. They were people doing what was common at the time.
But how in hell is that relevant to what we are talking about here?
Slave states helped win the revolution therefore decades latter I should pat them on the back for leaving the union they helped create over slavery? And not just keeping it mind you cause Lincoln had neither the power nor intention to end it in the South. Congress passed a consitional amendment that would enshrined the South’s right to have slavery if they wanted. But they wanted to expand it to the territories (whether the people there wanted it or not) and make new slave states. They ironically did the one thing that guaranteed a swift end to slavery. What a bunch of idiots.