...ended when it did and how it did at the end of the Civil War. > Abraham Lincoln said that "slavery was not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the southern part of it."(§). Most of the north was opposed to slavery because they were more industrialized. Most of the south wanted...

...war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. Ami the war came. "One-eighth of the whole population...perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object far which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to...

...because self-interest clouded reason. In his second inaugural address, Lincoln stated that slavery "constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All...that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war."55 According to Lincoln, there was no way to keep together liberty and slavery. Those who wanted...