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Aron puma Slavery was indeed one reason the Confederacy seceded, but it wasn't why the war was fought. There's a difference. several weeks, southern states started to announce their secession and the Union refused to recognize them, but didn't do anything. It was when Union troops refused to leave Confederate territory that the war broke out. We know the war wasn't fought over slavery because of that and because the Emancipation Proclamation (which was passed in 1863, 2 years after the war had started) only outlawed slavery in the states that seceded. 3 Union states were allowed to keep their slaves, Missouri, Kentucky and West Virginia. Indeed, Union propaganda that encouraged men to join the Union called the Southerners "Rebels" and "Traitors". Most, if not all Union soldiers did not fight the Confederacy to end slavery, but rather to keep them from seceding. The fact is, Union didn't give a damn about slavery. Lincoln only used the war as reason to abolish slavery in the Confederacy to punish them for seceding. It wouldn't be until 100 years later in the 1960's that the gov't and majority of the White population would actually start to care about treating blacks as equal citizens.
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Mary Feitz Lincoln only ended slavery in the Confederacy, as punishment for rebelling against the US. The CSA seceded because the US federal government didn't care about them and refused to help them economicly at all. If the South had gotten the aid they needed and not been taxed to high heaven, they wouldn't have needed slaves.
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HotWax93 Lincoln only ended slavery in the Confederacy, as punishment for rebelling against the US. The CSA seceded because the US federal government didn't care about them and refused to help them economicly at all. If the South had gotten the aid they needed and not been taxed to high heaven, they wouldn't have needed slaves.
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Wilford Fraser It's true. The Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in rebelling states. 3 Union states still had slaves through and after the war. The South was poor compared to the North. Very few owned slaves. And the state governments were too poor to afford things like railroads, infrastructure, or investing in schools. And congressional elections in recent years before the Civil War led to Northern states completely controlling Congress and when Lincoln won, it was the final straw for many in the South. In the 1860 presidential election, the Northern states won 59% of the electoral votes, but only 40% of the popular vote.
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Ars Poetica That's because back then they were still seen as Americans. Lincoln didn't want to end slavery. He just didn't want to be the president that the country split apart under. He wanted to keep us united and said that the Confederates should just be sent home. Lincoln didn't want to punish fellow Americans for their beliefs. His vice-President was a very racist Democrat. The only punishment Lincoln put on the South for rebelling was freeing all their slaves. It wouldn't be for another year after the Civil War that the remaining states in the Union would outlaw slavery.
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Weird how the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederacy and that 3 Union states would continue to have slavery for up to a year after the Civil War. It's almost like Lincoln had let them keep their slaves if they joined the Union because Lincoln didn't want to go down in history as the president that let the country split in 2. Almost as if the Emancipation Proclamation was meant to punish the Confederacy for secession and not because he gave a damn about blacks.
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