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Yes I’ve read The Real Lincoln and I value revisionist historian DiLorenza’s contribution to Lincoln scholarship. I’ve also read Forced Into Glory: The White Dreams of Abraham Lincoln by black historian Lerone Bennett Junior and I’ve read several of the standard biographies of Lincoln.
Have you read the Causes of Secssion of the seceding states?
They state quite unequivocably why they were leaving the Union. The war fought between 1861 and 1864 determined who was right and who was wrong, and as it is in all wars “to the victors went the spoils.”
With hindsight being 20/20, it was a strategic mistake to fire on Fort Sumter.
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reasons.html