[babyface00]

the confederacy held humans in bondage

Are you saying, that because some people in the Confederacy owned slaved (what was it, 15% of them?), that nothing Lincoln did is inexcusable?

Slavery was both legal, and practiced in all of the United States. I'm not defending the institution, but its not like the North's hands weren't just as bloody as the South's on this matter.

[marron]

Are you saying, that because some people in the Confederacy owned slaved (what was it, 15% of them?), that nothing Lincoln did is inexcusable?

I know the current line is that "hardly" anyone in the south had any slaves, but having poured through census records of the old south, doing geneological research, I was not surprised to find that almost everyone had at least one or two. (my ancestors, included). Even people of modest means had someone to help with the chores.

Had the Civil War not occurred in 1860, does anyone think war could have been avoided, as both north and south competed for western lands?

Had the Civil War not occurred in 1860, would there not eventually have been a slave revolt of the most bloody kind?

A slave economy can not survive long term. It was doomed from the outset. Too many brave, noble, southern lads died to defend bloated, corrupt, elitists who used them for their own ends.