![]() ![]() It is a moot question whether such radical anti-slavery leaders such as Charles Sumner, John Andrew, George Julian, Thaddeus Stevens, or Owen Lovejoy were genuine "abolitionists". Members of the Free Soil and Republican parties have often been called abolitionists, even though these parties were pledged officially before 1861 only to the limitation of slavery, not to its extirpation. Contemporaries of the antislavery movement and later historians have sometimes mistakenly used the word "abolitionist" to describe adherents of the whole spectrum of antislavery sentiment. In this study the term "abolitionist" will be applied to those Americans who before the Civil War had agitated for immediate, unconditional, and universal abolition of slavery in the United States.White supremacy and the right of property in slaves were at the core of the ideology for which Confederate soldiers fought. If there had been no slavery, there would have been no war. Slavery was at the root of what the Civil War was all about. ![]() ![]() Confederate victory would destroy the United States. ![]() These facts were not a coincidence, and every Civil War soldier knew it. The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union state. Quotes People are going to dislike you if you make a decision, even if it turns out to be the right one.
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