I won't argue any of those points, as they are valid. However I would argue that slavery was already on the way out all over the world, with the US being the last real stronghold, on par with your South political class being built upon it. But the minds were changing in that it was not moral to own another human being. I feel many lives would have been saved if not for the civil war. Would slavery existed much longer than it did, I cannot say. But there were more than just slavery as reasons for doing what Lincoln did. He was a slave owner himself I'm sure you know ;)
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Conscription for Lincoln's war was slavery of the worst kind. The bloodshed was appalling. Lincoln should have allowed a peaceful secession instead of trying to maintain a military stronghold to tax confederate trade in the middle of a major port.
Unfortunately, abolitionists were a minority even in the North, and it wasn't until Lincoln turned the rhetoric toward a moralistic crusade against slavery in his bid for reelection that people started to see it as a patriotic duty to oppose chattel slavery. I think that infection of statism did a lot of harm, and of course, Jim Crow demonstrated the State's opposition to free blacks for decades after.
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Lots of truth there, for sure. Like most political wars, we could play the game all day and night of things we would have done differently. And talk about all the different hopeful outcomes. I would skip all that and go back to 1776, or maybe even a few years earlier and go from there :)
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