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So basicly your ignoring the fact the north killed most of the Black Americans on the Plantation who they ment to liberate from Slavery
Goodness, you haven't demonstrated that to be a fact, that the North killed most of the black slaves they encountered on plantations. You've recounted some oral history about one such account, but left out many pertinent details. Were the slaves fighting the Union troops? Were they just standing around in the fields and Union troops mowed them down? How many? Did this occur elsewhere?
What we KNOW from history is many black slaves fled the South, and joined the Union forces and fought on behalf of the Union forces against the Confederacy. About 180,000 of them according to several accounts. So I flatly don't believe that the killing of slaves was Union policy. Lincoln intended as part of the Emancipation Proclamation to bolster northern troops with freed slaves. Could those atrocities have occurred on a limited basis? Of course, but there were atrocities on all sides - it was a brutal war and people in brutal wars do horrible things.
but yeah let's say the war was based solely on Slavery. History is not always black and white my dear.
I didn't say "solely" but no doubt that was the biggest cause. Read the seceding states declarations in their own words.... dear