Yep. Like many (all?) politicians he said different things to different people, depending on political reasons.
SO what do you do then?
Look at his actions to see which he really meant.
What were his actions?
Grinding the South to powder and freeing the slaves.
His action was done to save the union. Because when you read the EP, he never freed any slaves but those in the confederacy and they were not part of the US.
If he had resigned, and let his vp have the office, the war would never have happened, now would it?
Hell, if he had not run, there would have been no threat to the union.
Your imaginary version of history is just not so.
You quote from Lincoln said all he wanted was to save the union.
The easiest way to do that would have been to give the southern states what they wanted.
If they don't rebel, the union is fine.
Instead, he just happened to find that the best way to save the union was to end slavery and crush the South.
You judge a politician by what he does, not what he says.
The war was not fought over slavery. We've been over that The OP here is not about slavery.
It is about the different experiences we have had and how it is called racism by those like you.
You were slaves. You did not have the opportunity to do very much. It is in the nature of slavery.
The northern whites elected a president knowing that he was a rabid anti-slavery guy, and that south would be very unhappy about that.
THey fought knowing that if not for the slavery issue, the fight would likely not be happening.
The end result was America as it was, but without slavery. And a much poorer south.
We were slaves but we fought slavery. And died doing so. We fought slavery from he beginning of it.
Your imaginary version of history just is not so.
Any long lasting system of slavery is all about dealing with the resistance of people who don't want to work for nothing.
That's more than "part of slavery", that's what slavery IS.
The failed resistance of a slave here or there, or a few that managed to run away is not what ended slavery.
It was these guys.
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Too bad that's not so.
The Union army did not win the Civil War and end slavery in the United States?
Tell me some more about how educated you are! LOL!!!
The war was not fought to end slavery. We've been over that.
The OP is not about the civil war.
True, it wast was mostly nationalism on both sides.
But slavery was the primary cause and the end result was Emancipation.