Walker Colt
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Texas Jay said:Hi Walker Colt. I don't know when I or DiLorenzo ever said that Lincoln was "pro-slavery" but the record is clear that Lincoln was against what is called "racial equality". Those are two different positions and are not synonymous. One point that the Lincoln cultists and traditionalists refuse to acknowledge is that the Civil War had many causes. Slavery was only one of them.
~Texas Jay
If you read the Declarations of Causes you will see slavery is numero uno my friend. That doesn't mean the Confederate rank and file were fighting to keep the institution but the state governments certainly were. In fact by the end of the war Lee and others wanted to free the slaves and arm them. You've got to listen to what they said before the war not after. After they lost the war they came up with all kinds of reasons for secession. Don't buy into revisionist history, read the secession convention details in the newspapers and the Confederate Constitution debates.