The horrible shame is the states were not allowed to exercise their right to cede from the Union when the Union was harmful. The Union was taxing the South and sending the money to Washington DC and New York City, as it still is today. The lucky slaves who came to America were the only 5% of the slaves. America was the LAST industrial nation to abolish slavery, which was legal for ten thousand years. We still suffer from the Bible, written by people who believed the Earth was flat, the Sun circled the Earth at the center of the Universe, and the Hebrew racist terrorist God was the top deity. How primitive and crude we human mammals still are. This war rages in Israel/Iraq/Afghanistan today. It's always about the money. Is debt slavery any better than chained slavery? Lincoln wasn't good or bad. Lincoln, like Hitler, Hussein, Stalin, Churchill, Obama, Bush were all just government employees collecting a check to do a job for the money. Winners love wars. Losers hate wars. It's that simple.