Let me put it this way ditto:
The South and North went to war over tariffs. Does that make it any clearer?
Do you seriously, SERIOUSLY, believe that there was no way for this country to peacefully emancipate slaves as the European powers had done years before? You seriously believe this was about slavery?
Abraham Lincoln was not an abolitionist. Here he is in a famous letter to the New York Tribune:
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save teh Union without freeing any slave I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union."
What he did was to "emancipate" slaves in the South and leave alone four slave states in the North. And the simple fact is that most northerners were shocked by the Emancipation Proclomation because they had not been told by their govt that they were dying by the tends of thousands blacks in the South.
The EP also caused a desertion crisis in the Union army to the tune of AT LEAST 200,000 and another 90,000 who fled to Canada to avoid conscription period!
Every post you make is more clueless than the last.
"The South and North went to war over tariffs." Yet, the Slaver leaders didn't mention it. Yeah, oh yeah.
"Do you seriously, SERIOUSLY, believe that there was no way for this country to peacefully emancipate slaves as the European powers had done years before?" Ummm, and why don't you let us know about those countries which had MILLIONS of slaves? Slavers LOVED slavery they were in NO mood to end it by ANY means.
Who has claimed Lincoln was an Abolitionist other than the slavers themselves?
"The EP also caused a desertion crisis in the Union army to the tune of AT LEAST 200,000 and another 90,000 who fled to Canada to avoid conscription period!" Where do you get this crap? Crackpot.com?