[Repeal 16-17]

Lincoln stated the war wasn’t about slavery. Many, many times.

The South seceded to preserve slavery. Lincoln fought the South to maintain the Union. Both were express about their respective reasoning.

[jeffersondem]

“The South seceded to preserve slavery.”

Was the North about to pass a constitutional amendment in 1861 to end slavery?

I am under the impression that the U.S. constitution to which Lincoln swore an oath to defend (twice) enshrined slavery?

[T-Bone Texan]

Lincoln fought the South to maintain the flow of tax revenue, as 2 thirds of all revenue to the US gov’t came from the South.

I believe this was in the form of tariffs.

It was all about the money.

I will never forgive Abe for what he did to my beloved South. I spit on his name.

[DiogenesLamp]

The South seceded to preserve slavery.

Slavery was legal in the United States. Why would they need to secede to "preserve" it? Indeed it lasted longer in the Union than it did in the Confederacy. It took the Union another six months after the war to end legal slavery in the Union.

Lincoln fought the South to maintain the Union

To maintain economic control of revenue producing states in the South that produced nearly 75% of all Federal revenues prior to the War. It was about money.