[thinktwice]

Somebody has been stuffing revisionist history into your receptive skull.

People using common sense know that the abolition of slavery -- Lincoln's platform -- was the primary cause of the Civil War.

[JamesWilson]

People using common sense know that the abolition of slavery -- Lincoln's platform -- was the primary cause of the Civil War.

Then why was the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 - 2 years after the Civil War began?