"Hey guys, i know he was fighting to continue the most evil institution in american history, but besides that, he had integrity and blah blah blah blah blah." the hypocrisy and mental gymnastics of these white b*stardS on full display here. they truly are the worst evil ever witnessed on this planet.
Brother that's not why the civil war was fought, and we gotta stop saying this. white people have said quite plainly what the civil war was about, and it was about the preservation of the nation. slavery was used as a cover, kinda like the modern "war on terror."
The civil war was fought because you can't allow your country to be split into separate nations sharing the same space, and white folks were not about to let the country partition itself, for any reason. It opens yourself up to foreign involvement, which is basically what we see on the african continent today in many of those countries. France holds the political influence in some, in others you have different european nations. in some of those countries you have two different foreign powers jockeying for position which leads to african troops fighting proxy wars while the mother countries sit back and watch and laugh. i've read that's what rwanda was about: a proxy war between the u.s. and france. now you have the chinese moving in. You can't have one country which is independent or a dependent of, say, Britain, and then right next to it have a country that's a dependent of Spain.
think of slavery as the old reel lawn mowers, the ones with no engine. the south was still using those and insistent on continuing to use them, while the north had invented the modern 2 cycle rotary mower. there's alotta grass to cut in this new land and alotta money to be made, especially as they were looking to expand westward. the north wasn't about to slow their technological progress, which would've meant slowing their money as well as hindering the growth and expansion of the western territories, so that the south could continue using production methods that had become obsolete because that's what they had become accustomed to. And they damn sure weren't about to just let the south split off and form their own little nation so that france and england and spain could reenter american politics.
they said as much in the debates leading up to the constitutional convention about a century earlier, and they also predicted the civil war in those session. go pick up the anti-federalist papers. they usually have em in half price books in paperback for around $4.