In war, there are two options, you win or you lose. Had the Southerners decided not to go to war. They would have been able to keep their slaves and avoided “million” deaths.
The South lost the war.
>>Bull Snipe sniped: “In war, there are two options, you win or you lose. Had the Southerners decided not to go to war. They would have been able to keep their slaves and avoided “million” deaths.”
The South was invaded.
Mr. Kalamata
Which means that slavery was not the thing over which each side was fighting, because they both agreed that would be kept without a war.
Meaning the Union war effort was not about slavery. It was about control. (Of the South's economic production for the benefit of the crooks in New York and Washington DC who had manipulated the laws to funnel money into their pockets.)