I believe they always start the conversation off with "slavery" because without it, they realize that it was an immoral invasion.
Believing the fiction that the war was launched to "end slavery" is the only thing that allows them to justify what was a horrible, bloody, ugly war over money.
They just gloss right over the fact that it was nearly two years before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. They also ignore the fact that he explicitly said he would keep slavery if the South would stop fighting.
Of course he would. That's where much of that import money that came through New York, originated.
DiogenesLamp responding: "I believe they always start the conversation off with 'slavery' because without it, they realize that it was an immoral invasion."
Total rubbish.
Nobody posting here makes such arguments, all know better.
You two are simply concocting a straw-man argument far easier to defeat than any substantive posts by those in support of the Republic and Republicans.