• alvvayson@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    No, they are entirely wrong.

    You are right that Lincoln didn’t want a war and only went to war to preserve the union. The North had the votes to end slavery without war and that is how they wanted to end it.

    Which is why the southern states seceded and started the war in order to preserve their right to own slaves.

    This ain’t difficult, people. Photocopies of the documents from that time are easily accessible and written in modern English.

    You don’t need to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs.