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