HorseLoverGirl
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Well the South sure must've thought he did, especially after Lincoln gave his House Divided speech upon accepting the nomination for the abolitionist party that was formed to end slavery. How did you manage to miss that? In fact, South Carolina's declaration for secession called him the "abolitionist president" and quoted a line from his speech to make their cause: "I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free. "
The emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in the south.....where 78% of all slaves in America just happened to be. The proclamation did not effect the border states that chose to stay in the union. But then Lincoln probably didn't posses a wartime power to unilaterally abolish slavery in areas not at war with the USA.
The irony is that Lincoln probably wouldn't have been able to end slavery without the south trying to secede.
Except Lincoln didn't care about the slaves either way, as long as he stopped the South from seceding. Research him sometimes, he was not the saint people think he is.
Right, Lincoln was a monster but the slave holders were honorable. Got it.
Next you'll be telling me that blacks loved slavery so much that they started the war to keep it. lol
Lincoln was an opportunist politician if ever there were one. Not to mention slavery was not nearly as rampant in the South as people think, and blacks owned slaves themselves. Overall only about 15% of the population of the South owned slaves in the first place