re: American Civil War Animated Maps

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This does not disprove a thing

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It disproves the causus belli was was slavery. Otherwise, the first thing done in Maryland would have been emancipation. In fact, slaves in Maryland were some of the last to be legally freed, when Maryland's constitution was amended in 1864.

There would not have been a significant movement to offer emancipation in exchange for military service to slaves by the Confederacy (although a plan was never enacted in any significant way, the fact that such discussions were underway betrays the complexity of that peculiar institution).

And, as I mentioned before, there would not have been a significant risk of mutiny of Northern regiments upon issuance of the EP, if the war was all about slavery.