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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Kevin M. Levin

      The flip-side of this is that since the Confederacy depended on enslaved labor, abolition of slavery was not only a moral necessity but crucial to winning the war. Much of the drama of the Civil War consisted of abolitionists convincing Lincoln of this.https://twitter.com/KevinLevin/status/1236368480078901254 …

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      Kevin M. LevinVerified account @KevinLevin
      These records underscore that Confederate armies could not function without enslaved labor. The notion of slavery as the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy was not an abstract notion. Every Confederate soldier understood the importance of slavery to their cause. https://twitter.com/USNatArchives/status/1236366156417699846 …
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Mar 2020
      Replying to @sunraysunray

      "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." Lincoln, 1862.

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        1. TaylorStreet‏ @TaylorStreet312 8 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @sunraysunray

          I think this one quote is maybe part of a broader decades long political effort and not the gotcha you think it is, Jeet?

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        1. Matt Gottlieb‏ @mgottlieb 8 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @sunraysunray

          The whole letter, perhaps the last paragraph, is interesting. http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm …

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        2. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @sunraysunray

          I think the point that Lincoln needed to be convinced on was that ending slavery was the way to winning the war. The arming of African-American troops, the massive escapes from enslavement in South (what DuBois called a general strike against slavery)...

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        3. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey 8 Mar 2020
          Replying to @LeoECasey @HeerJeet @sunraysunray

          You are mixing together the moral argument against slavery with the pragmatic argument on how to win war, Jeet. Lincoln was always opposed to slavery, even win earlier years of political career when he was unsympathetic to African-American equality.

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