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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

You’re taking the quoted text out of context. Lincoln said that because he was trying to preserve the union.

But he was still against the expansion of slavery, he was very anti-Slavery: http://www.abraham-lincoln-history.org/lincolns-view-on-slavery/

The southern states seceded because they wanted to expand slavery, and hence the civil war.