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Originally Posted by Azure
Yes, if the Union wouldn't have won, slavery would have eventually been abolished anyways.
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So if the Union had lost, slavery would have been ended in the Southern states? Therefore, the Union prolonged slavery? Is that the argument?
I am honestly having a tough time following this...
Wasn't the institution of slavery abolished in 1865 precisely because the Union won and ultimately passed the 13th amendment rendering slavery illegal?
Sure, Reconstruction after the war saw a whole lot of clever ways to render black people less than white people (particularly at the courts), but the formal end of Slavery was due to Union winning and demanding blacks be recognized at law as people as opposed to property. No?