Orange_Juice
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1) That is incorrect. Lincoln declared slaves in states in rebellion free as a military tactic. If those slaves rebelled, it would pull troops off the line to guard the home front.
2) The slaves in border states and the North were not freed until after the war and Licoln was dead.
3) The division in this nation was the balance of power in the Federal government. Slaves or no, the South was not going to willingly put itself at the mercy of northern industrial states that would legislate in their own favor.
1) Yet they were free forever, as Lincoln intended
2) Freeing them in the South meant slavery everywhere was doomed. That's why Lincoln attempted to buy freedom for all border state slaves in 1862
3) Yet, when slavery ended, so did the secession. When was the last attempt at secession?