Quote Originally Posted by Plug Drugs View Post
Abe Lincoln only made slavery illegal because he wanted an indirect way to provoke a war with the south.
The south had long since been planning to abandon national government and leave governmental power up to the states - this would have meant that Washington DC would have been in control of fuck all.
So, since the south's economy relied heavily on slavery, Abe knew that making it illegal would start the Civil War early and prevent the south from building up enough power to successfully secede from the union.
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there were three other major points that was making a civil war become increasingly unavoidable. the north and south clashed since indepenence over unequal federal infrstructure, crippling protective tariffs on imported goods, slavery, and one other thing i cant remember cuz i almost failed us history. the history of this country is boring as fuck relative to old-world countries