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Originally Posted by jebe
still didnt make it right. sell the slaves at rock bottom prices to the south, and then 20 years later, rally around the idea it is immoral. what a farce.
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I doubt it sat well with Union soldiers to hear that they were fighting against slavery . . . . two years into the war, rather than fighting to save the Union, which they were told, when in fact it was more because of tariffs, state rights, and increased centralized power.
After the war blacks were still not given equal rights (and being able to vote was not always a given) in some northern states, and some areas had laws against no black immigration even before the war started. The abolishonists were a small minority.