Should the confederacy have been allowed to leave the union?
Yes to allowed and legality is sorta a grey area. First off you have to realize Slavery was not the cause nor the major reason for the Civil War, if it had been slavery would have been abolished then the secession would have happened…you know Cause and Effect. Even at Lincoln’s funeral Fredrick Douglass whom spoke stated that while Lincoln was against the spread of slavery he did not support it’s elimination. The Emancipation Proclamation was a double edged sword, first off, Almost every state in the Union were Free States by 1861 with the exception of West Virginia, Maryland, and Rhode Island, Kentucky, and Missouri, that’s 18 to 5. The major purpose of it was that as word of it spread it was hoped it would cause rebellion and riots on the plantations and in the factories in the South making the was last a shorter period. Secondly you have to dig for the real cause of the session, they seem to ignore this in your US History text books in High School in order to glorify and sugar coa
