Lincoln had "freed" the slaves in the Rebel states with the Emancipation Proclamation
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Replying to @arthur_affect
mostly to hurt rebel morale and dry up their resources back home.
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @arthur_affect
sometimes i think about what would happen if the south had won--i remember reading they had plans to invade mexico
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
yeah we say slavery ending was "inevitable" but nothing is inevitable
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Replying to @arthur_affect
yeah the south made some bad offensives that led to their defeat, but there are scenarios where they could have won
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Replying to @marcushjohnson @smoothkobra
all the north had to do was get sick of fighting
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
that's I think what makes Lincoln important, he got people invested in winning that war
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Replying to @arthur_affect @smoothkobra
the Gettysburg Address makes it sound like the South leaving would be the end of America and the end of democracy
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the historical trajectory of the us would be wildly different. i dont know how the world wars play out after a csa win
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ironically what was good for Blacks was v bad for Natives - Civil War built the military machine that "won the West"
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