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Originally Posted by FoolofaTook
rbg the south was fighting for states rights.
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absolutely false, protection of slavery was the stated reason for the war by Confederate leaders at the outset
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lincoln didn't commit to banishing slavery until later on.
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The entire war began because Lincoln was elected. His party, the upstart Republicans, had a platform of abolishing slavery. This is literally why the South seceded.
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and sherman committed genocide. you heard of his march to the sea? burning everything in his army's way.
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that's total war, not genocide. I don't think Sherman was necessarily a model of moral behavior either but admiring Robert E. Lee is fucking stupid.