Re: Civil War arguments
Conscription is no less valid an action for a nation to take in this example than if it were under attack from another. The federal government was protecting its black citizens.
And as I have said before, only if seccession had not happened was there a reasonable chance of slavery being abolished. With the South left to itself, there was no reasonable such expectation because of the political dominance of the slave owning aristocracy and the likelihood that even poorer non-slave owning southerners would not relish the prospect of so many blacks being freed (KKK after the war shows this).
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