So This Fucking Moron Is On The School Board In Colorado

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But it sure as fuck wasn't 'voluntary.'

Yeah, just like the Lee voluntarily allowed 3 Union armies to surround his army at Appomattox Courthouse.

In fact Jefferson Davis even tried to claim emencipation would make restroation of union impossible.

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Both views points are wrong. The freeing of the slaves was a tactical move by Lincoln to destabilize the South in order to win the Civil War, started by farmers who were being crushed by tariffs on imported industrial goods.

No, the timing of the emencipation was after the South had suffered the two defeats that decided its fate. In fact Lincoln delayed freeing slave because he did not want it perceived that emencipation was purely a tactical move in the war against the south. Freeing slaves eliminated only the possibility that Great Britain or France would come into the war on the side of the South at save it in the eleventh hour.

Some time before this Lincoln had already come around to become a genuine abolitionist. It was only a foregone conclusion the slaves would be freed unless the Union was defeated. The only question was when was the best time to do it.