The Civil War WAS NOT About Slavery

The Civil War was not about Slavery! As Lincoln says below, it was about preserving the Union! The Emancipation Proclamation was a byproduct, and not the cause, of the Civil War.

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"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." - Abraham Lincoln 

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