• @Jumi
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    -73 months ago

    Wasn’t the wargoal to end slavery added later to keep other powers from supporting the South?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      113 months ago

      Effectively, the war was always about slavery - the question, in the earliest stages, was whether the Union was fighting to contain slavery, or fighting to destroy it entirely.