Why did the American Civil War lead to the end of Slavery?
Well, the entire population of the C.S.A. (including four million slaves), no matter if they were illiterate or women who could not even vote, all sat down and decided that “States Rights” being of such high ideals, all talk of the much less important matter of abolition would just have to wait until a more appropriate time. Only President Lincoln and a very small number of people who opposed slavery on the grounds that it was in complete contradiction to the Constitution of the United States of America, and who did not need forced labour as the “cornerstone” of their nation, pushed to have a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation announced in 1862, then put it into effect as of the first of January, 1863. I am not sure why everyone still insists that human rights are more important than “States Rights”…without the States, what kind of humans would you be anyways?!?
