(1) What Lincoln did was free the slaves in Confederate territories where he could not free them and to leave them in slavery in Union-held territory where he could have freed them. It was not to end slavery that Lincoln initiated an invasion of the South. He stated over and over again that his main purpose was to ’save the Union,’ which is another way of saying that he wanted to abolish states’ rights once and for all...
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He stated over and over again that his main purpose was to ’save the Union,’ which is another way of saying that he wanted to abolish states’ rights once and for all. He could have ended slavery just as dozens of other countries in the world did during the first sixty years of the nineteenth century, through compensated emancipation, but he never seriously attempted to do so...
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