[SeeSharp]

While the vision of most southern leaders was that there was no question at all. Negro slaves were their property and that was the end of it.

How is that worse than Lincoln's plan? His plan was to deport them all back to Africa where most of them would surely die. At least those southerners who did foresee the end of slavery envisioned the western territories as the solution (an idea viscerally opposed by Lincoln).

[K-Stater]

How is that worse than Lincoln's plan? His plan was to deport them all back to Africa where most of them would surely die.

So you're saying that a lifetime of bondage for you and your posterity is preferable to freedom in Africa with all its dangers?

[rockrr]

His plan was to deport them all back to Africa where most of them would surely die.

Lincoln never had any such a plan. Maybe you were thinking of Thomas Jefferson?