From my limited understanding, Lincoln was somewhat committed to ending slavery but wasn’t even that concerned with it, like it wasn’t part of his first 100 days plan or anything. However, his election was interpreted by the south as a full on attack against their rights (to keep slaves) so they attempted to secede.
So the north gave a shit but understood the need to end slavery, they just planned to do it in like a 5-10 year plan. Meanwhile the slavers jumped the gun, shot themselves in both feet and made it the most pressing issue they could which led to the end of slavery and the damaged the economies of several states.
Yeah, the whole thing was a major unforced error on the part of the South. Really just shot themselves in the fucking face and caused half-a-million preventable deaths because they were too privileged to be able to conceptualize any sort of minor setback in their aristocratic jerkoff fantasies.
Good thing that isn’t something we’ve had to fight at any point since. Ha ha. Ha. Ha…
From my limited understanding, Lincoln was somewhat committed to ending slavery but wasn’t even that concerned with it, like it wasn’t part of his first 100 days plan or anything. However, his election was interpreted by the south as a full on attack against their rights (to keep slaves) so they attempted to secede.
So the north gave a shit but understood the need to end slavery, they just planned to do it in like a 5-10 year plan. Meanwhile the slavers jumped the gun, shot themselves in both feet and made it the most pressing issue they could which led to the end of slavery and the damaged the economies of several states.
Yeah, the whole thing was a major unforced error on the part of the South. Really just shot themselves in the fucking face and caused half-a-million preventable deaths because they were too privileged to be able to conceptualize any sort of minor setback in their aristocratic jerkoff fantasies.
Good thing that isn’t something we’ve had to fight at any point since. Ha ha. Ha. Ha…
Yeah Lincoln was WAY more pro-union than anti-slacery.