re: Abraham Lincoln radically changed the nature of the Civil War on this day 161 years ago

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Slavery may well have been on the way out, but the transition to mechanical agriculture was not ready yet, hence one of the reasons the South wanted to maintain slavery. Their entire economy was built on it. It was a long time after the end of the civil war that mechanical agriculture became the norm in the South. Sharecropping became the primary means of cultivating crops.

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i get the motivation for the south but can't criticize Lincoln by saying "slavery was on its way out" while defending the south. The same South had slavery as a right in their Constitution.

Slavery as a practice is hypocritical to the principles the USA was founded on. That cancer should have never been allowed to fester