User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/A question of morality/@comment-1600847-20121209142434/@comment-26474238-20121212184500

What are schools teaching these days? -.- The Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. The only reason slaves were brought into the equation was because of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by Abraham Lincoln. And he most certainly didn't do that out of the kindness of his heart. He only freed the slaves so he could recruit more men to the war effort; and no reason further. Hell, Lincoln himself owned slaves, even after the slaves were supposedly freed.