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**ignonsoli** · 12-05-2011, 12:57 AM

No, it wasn't about slavery since most Southerns didn't own slaves and never would.

It was about "freedom and equality" vs. White supremacy. The population of the South was not committed to slavery in a philosophical sense but what they couldn't accept was giving up the belief in the inferiority of the Black Africans. Nor did they wish that these people would be their equals.

Bear in mind that abolitionists were against slavery, but for the most part had no intention of granting equal citizenship rights to ex-slaves, or freed African-Americans. So, your white-supremacy argument applies to both the north and the south. Additionally, the Emancipation Proclamation DID NOT include Maryland, a slave state that remained in the Union because Lincoln did not want the hoped-for slave uprising to destabilize a Union state.

12-05-2011, 12:57 AM	#30
ignonsoli Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 403 Senior Member	No, it wasn't about slavery since most Southerns didn't own slaves and never would. It was about "freedom and equality" vs. White supremacy. The population of the South was not committed to slavery in a philosophical sense but what they couldn't accept was giving up the belief in the inferiority of the Black Africans. Nor did they wish that these people would be their equals. Bear in mind that abolitionists were against slavery, but for the most part had no intention of granting equal citizenship rights to ex-slaves, or freed African-Americans. So, your white-supremacy argument applies to both the north and the south. Additionally, the Emancipation Proclamation DID NOT include Maryland, a slave state that remained in the Union because Lincoln did not want the hoped-for slave uprising to destabilize a Union state.
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