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Old Mon Jul 02, 2012, 11:19am
Steven Tyler Steven Tyler is offline
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Originally Posted by zm1283 View Post
This is not correct.

Lincoln wanted to keep slavery from spreading. He didn't have any qualms about slavery, so he did "believe" in it. He was willing to do whatever he needed to keep the Union together.

If you don't think the Civil War was about slavery, you didn't pay attention when they covered everything from about 1815 on during history class.
So why the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 two years after the start of the war?
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