Jim crow by democrats.
Undoubtedly the democrats hung on to slavery because of economics. But there is absolutely no doubt that electing an abolitionist president brought on the civil war. Can you name anything, other then slavery, that ended with the civil war?
Correction. Jim Crow by SOUTHERN democrats. Anyone who knows the history of both parties, knows better than to entirely romanticize either as the champion of civil rights and equality.
Even into the 20th century, If you look at the geographical distribution of opposing votes on the 1964 civil rights bill, overwhelmingly, SOUTHERN democrats AND republicans voted almost unanimously against the passing of the legislation.
The southern factions of BOTH parties were equally as ignorant, backward, bigoted
and draconian in their belief systems.
Next, where did you read that Lincoln was an abolitionist? Lincoln believed that blacks were inferior and was in favor of segregation or repatriation and did not believe in racial equality. If he were alive today, he would be right at home in this forum.
In fact, he even stated :
"I can think of no greater calamity than the assimilation of blacks into society as the white mans equal".
Lastly, you asked what else besides slavery ended with the war for states rights? Obviously, with their primary labor resource compromised the financial stability of the south was severly weakened.
OK, I'll give you that Lincoln was not by definition a abolitionist. BUT his election did cause the Union to split over slavery. If he was not an abolitionist then he certainly was considered on. And the only thing I can't think of that ended in because of the Civil War was slavery. If democrats had not gone to war over the issue then the institution would have stay on for years, how many who knows but Lincoln ended the practice that much we do know.
The country did not go to war over the issue of slavery. The war was fought to preserve the union and industrialize America as a whole. Slaves were not regarded as any better than horses. Just as when the automobile came into widespread use through mass production, horses were no longer needed, the same process of evolution put slavery out of business.
There were aboltionists who in fact did believe that slavery was immoral.....but Lincoln was not one of them in any way.
I can see how some would perceive Lincoln that way. He has been kindly romanticized in history and been falsely lauded as a humanitarian who was empathetic towards slaves. And unfortunately, the same fabrication is being taught in some public schools today.
Here are a few quotes by Lincoln that I read to my grandchildren when they visited me one weekend and were eagerly telling me how they "learned" how Lincoln brought about the end of slavery....needles to say, they were quite surprised as well as disappointed, but I refused to allow them to be brainwashed by outright lies.
Regarding negro "equality":
I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [applause]; that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people…And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.
—The Lincoln-Douglas debates, Charleston, IL, September 18, 1858
There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people, to the idea of an indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races.…Judge Douglas is especially horrified at the thought of the mixing of the blood by the white and black races; agreed for once—a thousand times agreed.…I am not in favor of Negro citizenship [applause].…That is all I have to say about it.
—The Lincoln-Douglas debates, Springfield, IL, June 22, 1857
Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God great enough to make and maintain this universe, shall there continue knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?—From Fragments: Notes for Speeches, September, 1859
Regarding the abolition of slavery:
My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it…—From a letter to Horace Greeley during the Civil War