I posted First Hand accounts and haven`t even begun to post Primary sources from the Black Confederates or the Plantation Owners or even of the average family in the South.
Have you even read anything regarding the Civil War, the Antebellum South or anything from the time period? I encourage you to do so.
I'm very well read on the subject.
I finished Frederick Douglass' FIRST HAND ACCOUNT of slave life in the South and it absolutely destroys every weak and stupid attempt at a point you have even tried to make.
I'm currently reading The Age of Lincoln and it puts to rest your notions of Lincoln's intentions. While it's true that the war was originally fought to preserve the union, you fail to understand COMPLETELY how attitudes changed as the war progressed. (Do you really, by the way, think you're shedding some revolutionary light on claiming that in the first place? Really, everyone with even cursory understanding on the subject already accepts that as being fact, so I don't understand how you could be so smug about it.)
You seem stuck in the southern myth that slavery wasn't that bad or that black people didn't really suffer that badly under it. THIS IS A COMPLETELY IGNORANT ARGUMENT TO MAKE AND MAKES YOU LOOK INCREDIBLY STUPID, STUPID, STUPID.
You asked yourself on here if I knew where you were from. That is quite simply an admission that you are not willing to look at things objectively.
You're a child and it would appear that you are the one who has some reading to do.