Abraham Lincoln knew that the slaves were freed by the blood and sweat of the union soldiers.
Obama will thank their descendants with a bill for reparations.
The war was not fought about slavery and the issue of slavery as believed by Lee and other Confederate generals was a dying cause anyway. It was completely about States’ rights. The North’s brutal campaign against the South is inexcusable with such atrocities as Sherman’s march.
“Abraham Lincoln knew that the slaves were freed by the blood and sweat of the union soldiers.”
Slavery was not banned until the adoption of the 13th Amendment in December, 1865, after the Civil War had ended. If the North was so interested in freeing the slaves, why is it that northern states such as Delaware and New Jersey did not ratify the 13th Amendment until four years later, after having first rejected it?