If that is true, then we can forever dismiss the notion that Lincoln and the North “fought to free the slaves.” And why should they?
It was slave, and erstwhile slave states such as New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland that voted to enshrine slavery into the U.S. constitution in the beginning.
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia also voted for slavery. A four-thirteenths apportionment of responsibility must always be cast in that direction.
Jefferson was a Virginian and the main author of The Constitution and a prodigious slave owner. As I said th3e North did not go to war to end slavery, it went to war to preserve the Union and in 1863 Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The South fought to the bitter end to preserves slavery. Yours is an argument of moral relativism and it’s falling flat. And you totally dodged the questions I asked you.