Reply #53: this is agitprop

[RainDog]

no one stated that blacks should have been kept in slavery.

the south should not have been admitted to the union while holding slaves. if they had decided to continue slavery, it would have been no different than what actually happened, but the U.S. wouldn't have been identified as a slave-holding nation.

Lincoln did not fight the civil war to abolish slavery, but to preserve the union, and because the expansion into the west brought the issue to a head because some people finally said ENOUGH.

If the north had gone to war because they wanted to free the blacks, rather than preserve the union, maybe your accusations would matter, but they don't.

the underground railroad helped blacks long before the federal govt did.

if the south had then wanted to declare war because the north was interfering, then all the more reason to destroy that peculiar institution.

reconstruction didn't go far enough. too many white racists politicians were allowed to interfere with democracy, yet again, and we still have to deal with the facts that the south, as a region, has been an embarrassment to democracy since the outset of this nation.