Jeesh and I wuz just gonna watch! Now I'm in it.
Gladly, the fight between Old Sarge and I is over and we've come to an understanding, but just by way of explaining why I read that "Got Slaves?" the way I did as opposed to your reading of it --- to read it as you did would require that I accept the notion slavery would not have ended within a generation without war, and that slavery was more than a tertiary cause of the war.
I don't accept those propositions - though I certainly understand others do in good faith.
:)