are you REALLY dumb enough to believe that hate-filled, REVISIONIST bilge???
ONLY the slave-owners (5-6% of BOTH northern & southern citizens) and a FEW thousand abolitionists "cared a damn about the plight of the slaves".
they SHOULD have cared. they did NOT!
the WBTS, despite 150 years of self-righteous, arrogantly FALSE, damnyankee propaganda was NEVER about slavery.
even GEN U S Grant said that the war was ONLY to "preserve the union".
surely you're smart enough to know THAT simple fact.
free dixie,sw
Stand, the tragedy that I see is that a small group of people in the South with political clout beyond their numbers tore the South away from possible concerted action with the South's natural allies in the expanding West. It was the interest of a few in expanding slavery that scuttled this natural alliance. If I had to choose in 1860 between Lincoln and Douglas, I'd have chosen Douglas and limited federalism and a steady death to slavery. But since the hotheads forced the choice into being between Lincoln and Breckenridge, I'd wholeheartedly take Lincoln.