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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: steve harris who wrote (339920)6/11/2007 1:12:53 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1586166
 
The southern states decided to secede from the union after feeling the north had become too powerful in congress

I thought the Senate was designed to neutralize that issue.

Yes, one result of the war were the slaves became freedmen. But to say the civil war was started to abolish slavery is wrong. There were slaves in the north, there were black slave owners, even the supreme court would not give Dred Scott his freedom. Also, during his Emancipation Proclamation, President Lincoln chose not to free the slaves in the north.

So then, if slavery had nothing to do with it, why did Lincoln free the slaves?

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