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even if the civil war was about state rights how could the south justify slavery
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And ... in WHAT YEAR did Lincoln make the infamous 'Emancipation Proclamation'? Was it in ... 1863?
Two years after the start of the Civil War?
Was the war about 'slavery' (... there was an abundance of slave-owning business owners in the Northern States) ... or was it about the original 13 states "Rights to Self-Determination"?
A useful political football - nothing more, nothing less.
Quoting: MindShaft It was about the belated enforcement of the Constitution for which the US was the subject of much embarrassment abroad. Remember, the was the Age of Reason and the world was aflame with liberal ideas and the rise of civilisation, commerce and trade, and was rejecting feudalism. Lincoln was a reasonable thoughtful individual and he understood what the progressives in america understood in the Sixties ... If you want to change a culture then the most successful way is through gradual change Lincoln wanted to gradually change the entrenched idea that slavery was ok ... his ultimate goal was the abolishment of slavery but he was willing to see it happen through patient wisdom .... The south pushed his hand and so he emancipated the slaves
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