[rockrr]

Where would the incentive lie to eventual, peaceful emancipation when you’ve just violently broken your sacred vows to your nation and broken away in order to form a would-be nation conceived upon and dedicated to the preservation of slavery?

[DarkSavant]

broken your sacred vows to your nation

Loyalty to the United States is sacred? Nonsense. It's a secular state. It's funny you don't use the same rhetoric about George Washington. Why is that? The individual states had a right to secede whenever they wanted, for any reason.

Slavery ended peacefully almost everywhere else in the world. It would have ended peacefully in the South too, without half a million corpses and resentments that last to this day..

[Pikachu_Dad]

Well said - and not just the preservation of, but the expansion if slavery into new territories.