Lincoln flat out lied to the Southern delegation in D.C. considering Fort Sumter. He manipulated the situation to start the war on purpose, willing to kill and did 600K lives to insure the Northern states dominance over the pesky South. The North could have at any time from the 1840 to the time of secession emancipated the slaves just in the same way that England did but the greed of power and political dominance by the North did not allow that option.
Never happened.
He manipulated the situation to start the war on purpose, willing to kill and did 600K lives to insure the Northern states dominance over the pesky South.
"That darn Lincoln tricked us into starting a war."
The North could have at any time from the 1840 to the time of secession emancipated the slaves just in the same way that England did but the greed of power and political dominance by the North did not allow that option.
Oh, do tell how that would have worked, given that the south had numbers in House and Senate that would have blocked any such constitutional amendment. Hell, until 1844, southerners wouldn't even allow the issue of slavery to be brought up in the House, enacting a Gag Rule.
At what point prior to the Civil War did the North ever have sufficient non-slave states to get the two/thirds vote necessary to pass a Constitutional amendment to end slavery?