Thank you for your praise and I am glad that you have educated yourself beyond the fairy tales people have spread since the Reconstruction.
I’m glad that you brought up the fact that Lincoln did not go to war for slaves. That point is much-argued and I have been “virtually” slapped even on this board for suggesting such a thing. I will further add that he freed the slaves not as a measure of “do-goodery,” but in order to foment an insurrection in the Confederate states, forcing them to fight on two fronts.
“... in order to foment an insurrection in the Confederate states, forcing them to fight on two fronts.”
Especially since he didn’t find it in his mythical big fluffy heart to free the Northern States’ slaves, but merely the Confederate States’ slaves with the emancipation proclamation, and unconstitutional executive order.