What are you reading?
I finished a good book a couple of months ago. With Malice Towards None - an Abraham Lincoln bio.
It is interesting.
Did you know...
Lincoln didn't even want the South to give up their slaves. originally? It's just that, as the war dragged on, it became necessary to absolutely obliterate the South. The slave labor made it harder to "break the back of the south". Plus, Lincoln knew that the Emancipation Proclomation would motivate slaves to escape to the Northern states. Not only was the South robbed of manpower, the North was receiving vital troops (ranks and enlistment were low due to the war's long toll).
Still, Lincoln was an absolute believer in white supremacy.