On 2020-06-22 8:55 a.m., Gary wrote:
> dsi1 wrote:
>> We visited the International Slavery Museum when we were in Liverpool. It was interesting and moving. The Brits abolished slavery about 30 years before the Yanks did. The difference, of course, is that they didn't have a civil war over the matter,
>
> Again, the US Civil War wasn't about slavery.
> The North was treating the South unfairly with economics.
> They chose to leave the union. That's what the civil war
> was all about.
>

Yeah. Right. Some claim it was about states' rights, but the only right
they really cared about was the right to have slaves.


> I suspect Lincoln abolished slavery later just as pay backs
> to the South for trying to divide us into two countries.


The Emancipation Proclamation was a pretty hollow gesture. It granted
freedom to slaves in the Confederate state, but the Union didn't really
have the jurisdiction to do that.