[TwelveOfTwenty]

They abolished slavery. Unless you can post something to prove that didn’t happen, you’re wasting FR’s bandwidth.

[FLT-bird]

They abolished slavery. Unless you can post something to prove that didn’t happen, you’re wasting FR’s bandwidth.

They were not founded to abolish slavery. Unless you can prove otherwise. Oh wait, you can't. You were simply wrong when you claimed that.

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In 1860, Southerners were convinced that Republicans were abolitionists and that Lincoln's election would mean the eventual end of slavery. It doesn't really matter if Republicans were actually abolitionists or not. Slaveowners feared that they were, and that led the Deep South states to secede.

Southerners weren't necessarily wrong. Policies that weren't explicitly calculated to support slavery could be expected to eventually weaken it. That was what the slaveowners thought and feared. Strangely, people who defend the secessionists don't want to admit any of this.