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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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The Moral Challenge of Slavery and Confederate Emancipation
There are a number of important points Livingston makes here, including- there were more anti-slavery societies in the South. Many in the North profited from the slave economy in the South.
- Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was mostly a gimmick to win international anti-slavery sentiment and to destabilize the Southern economy; Lincoln had not really thought out what to do with liberated slaves. He seemed to hope separated states would rejoin the Union to avoid the Proclamation's application.
- many slaves who escaped to the Union side were not well-treated, were not considered citizens, and were not necessarily welcome to migrate to free states
- many expected slavery to die out in the Confederacy as the economy diversified and became more industrialized, as in the Northern states
- the Confederacy was preparing in the latter stages of the war to offer emancipation to slaves who voluntarily enlisted in the Army.
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