Sorry pal, but the South did not secede because Lincoln wanted to send blacks back to Africa.
The South seceded because Lincoln said he wanted to limit -- not abolish -- the advance of slavery into territories and states where it did not already exist.
What Lincoln thought might eventually happen to freed slaves was never mentioned by secessionists in their arguments against the Union.
“Sorry pal, but the South did not secede because Lincoln wanted to send blacks back to Africa.”
You keep looking at what I say bass ackwards. I never said they did. The north thought they could abolish slavery, alright. But Abe was still thinking “yeah, abolish it by shipping them out.” He didn’t give up on his idea until after a couple of failed attempts, and had to cave in 1863.
The South seceded because they were thinking that State’s Rights were just that ... and they felt a lot like I do right now .. WTF? Does the government really think they can tell me how to live? That my pocket is there for them to be picked? That whether it is right to support everyone they want me to support or not is not the point, but that God gave me freedom to choose, not them? That I have no say in commerce, lifestyle or economy (however wrong it might be and there was PLENTY of Southerners who made that admission) and to just STFU and change it their pace and not at the pace I think will work best for me and my state?
The South did NOT create slavery, but the whole economy (including the money made in the north) stemmed from it to some extent. That can simply not be denied. The South did NOT believe that the time was right to end it. The North did.
That’s when the South went berserk and sent all of their troops north to burn and kill everything that moved. Or is it the other way around?