“every other country in the world ended slavery peacefully, even absolutist Russia. Of all world’s leaders, only Lincoln the tyrant found it necessary to wage a most destructive war.
The bad effects of Lincoln’s tyranny resonate today.”
The secession and the Civil War started before Lincoln was inaugurated. Most people in Washington, including Lincoln, wanted a compromise.
Jefferson Davis said in February 1861 that it was too late.
I sympathize with the southerners who fought to defend their states. Many fought bravely. Many died. Many were seriously wounded.
I have no sympathy whatsoever for Jefferson Davis and the other politicians who deliberately plunged this country into a bloody and costly Civil War which ended with over half a million dead and terrible destruction and suffering.
Excellent post.
No, that is far from true.
Many places still have open chattel slavery to this day. The wars in Afric continue.
But a number of counties did end the practice without civil war.