[Ditto]

One need not be a "Confederate apologist" to understand that Lincoln full well understood that slavery was a dying institution...the secession of the southern states would have expedited this.

That is simply not true. Stephens, who you refer to, called slavery the "Cornerstone" of the Confederacy. Confederate politicians often spoke of expanding their new nation to the south to Cuba, Mexico and Central America. Yancey and Butler argued for reopening of the Atlantic Slave trade to supply the labor needs for an expanding empire. Those men, at that time, saw slavery as the future, not a 'dieing institution.'

To say that industrialization and technology would have caused slavery to die under it's own inefficiency in the decades after the Civil War may or may not be accurate and can only be stated as hindsight. (From Hitler to Stalin to Mao, we know well that mines, mills and factories can employ slaves as well as freemen). The men of the Confederacy who lived through that time and made the decisions, saw slavery as integral to their future.

[stand watie]

not surprisingly, the slave-OWNERS (about 5-6% of the population of BOTH north & south) were INTENSELY interested in preserving the "peculiar institution".

hardly anyone else cared a damn about either the "preservation of slavery" OR about "the plight of the slaves".

for the VAST majority of northerners the WBTS was ONLY about "preserving the union". for the great majority of southerners the war was ONLY about FREEDOM for dixie AND "getting the DAMNyankee boot off our necks".

150 years of elitist/leftist/socialist/PC/revisionist LIES does not change those simple FACTS. FACTS are FACTS!

the struggle against the DAMNyankee elites continues by other means than arms.

free dixie,sw

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