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Lincoln stated that if he could keep the union together by freeing some of the slaves he would have done it.?
If he could preserve the union by freeing some, ot none of the states, he would have done that. Lincoln's main goal was to preserve the union.If he had not preserve the Union, and there was a divided United States. Future world conflicts would leave us vulnerable to foreign attack. Southern states would have likely sided with NAZI Germany. We might all be speaking German now, or possibly Russian since the Soviet Union would have eventually defeated Germany without our involvement in WWII.
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- sirbobby98121Lv 71 year agoFavorite Answer
At the best, Lincoln was ambivalent about slavery. His concern was the Union.
- Anonymous1 year ago
Well, maybe. But in some alternative-history novels where the South gains its independence, many other world-history events change, too. For example, in "Bring the Jubilee," WWI is a relatively minor war, the German Empire is not defeated, and there are no Nazis; the South allies with Imperial Germany against the British and Spanish Empires by the time the book takes place in 1950, and there is no WW2 at all. Also, there's no Soviet Union; Russia is also still an empire in that novel.
- ?Lv 61 year ago
Technically, the South did secede from the North, and they are two separate countries even today. The North may have won the fighting aspect of the war, but they lost all of the other dynamics - including the Constitutionally recognized unity between the two sides.
The North and the South still had identical views on their political beliefs - even slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation that history lauds as the Holy Grail of Lincoln's administration only pertained to the slave-holding states in rebellion. It had nothing to do with the other slave states and didn't free any slaves in those states.
The border states had a higher percentage of slaves than any Southern state and they weren't affected.
To expand this into the futuristic aspect of your question, both sides would have probably supported the same side, since as stated previously, they still shared the same political beliefs.
