I've always said it reconstruction could have been done easily and without losing northern support through war weariness if they had just recruited the freed slaves as the soldiers enacting martial law against former confederates. For one thing the freed slaves almost certainly would already know all the confederate sympathisers names and addresses
A lot of Northerners didn't oppose slavery from a moralistic standpoint.
He'll Lincoln was, by definition, a white supremacist. He thought black people could never be equal to white people he just didn't think that meant they should be enslaved.
Also the emancipation proclamation was more about cutting the Souths economy off at the knees than it was about justice.
I've always said it reconstruction could have been done easily and without losing northern support through war weariness if they had just recruited the freed slaves as the soldiers enacting martial law against former confederates. For one thing the freed slaves almost certainly would already know all the confederate sympathisers names and addresses
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A lot of Northerners didn't oppose slavery from a moralistic standpoint.
He'll Lincoln was, by definition, a white supremacist. He thought black people could never be equal to white people he just didn't think that meant they should be enslaved.
Also the emancipation proclamation was more about cutting the Souths economy off at the knees than it was about justice.