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Uh, no? It wasn't? It was over tarrif policy. Have you READ Lincoln's First Inaugural Address? It basically says, "Keep paying the tarrifs and nobody gets hurt." Seceding after Lincoln's election so that THEY COULD CONTINUE OWNING HUMAN BEINGS AS PROPERTY would be pretty [censored] silly, seeing as Lincoln explicitly said that that he had no aims to PREVENT THEM FROM CONTINUING TO OWN HUMAN BEINGS AS PROPERTY in his inaugural address.

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Go further. Look at his actual policy. The Emancipation Proclamation only ended slavery in areas still in active rebellion (i.e. areas where Lincoln had no authority). It explicitly did NOT end it in the border states, or in areas already conquered by union forces. It's pure propoganda. And effective.