[jmacusa]

Bombarding Ft. Sumter wasn't contiguous with violent secession? Not buying your argument. And as I asked, would the South have ended slavery with the war?

[FLT-bird]

Bombarding Ft. Sumter wasn't contiguous with violent secession? Not buying your argument. And as I asked, would the South have ended slavery with the war? They seceded peacefully and democratically. By the time of Ft Sumter, they had already seceded. And about Sumter, it was Lincoln who sent a heavily armed flotilla into South Carolina's territorial waters with the deliberate intent to start a war. Lincoln was the aggressor. Would the Southern states have ended slavery with the war? Well they did appoint an ambassador to Britain and France with plenipotentiary power to agree to a treaty that would have seen the CSA abolish slavery so they were willing to abolish it during the war.