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It required a civil war to remove slavery. The country was not built to have war as the mechanism for change.
by aanm1988 10y ago
It required a civil war to remove slavery. The country was not built to have war as the mechanism for change.
- talmand 10y agoThe civil war was not required to remove slavery, it could easily have been removed via the law; which it was. The war was the unfortunate result of the lawful attempts to remove slavery from the country. If the war had not happened, the Southern states would have left the country to form their own with slavery and the remaining US states would have continued making slavery illegal. The war was partly to keep the Union together. But it's a complicated thing that doesn't have just one simplified element to it.