Wendy Lyon wrote:
>
> So it is true to
> say that the *war* didn't start over slavery, but it's harder to argue
> that *secession* didn't.
Barbara Fields argues that the slaves in the south knew before Lincoln did that (a) there would be war and (b) it would end in the destruction of slavery because _they_ knew their masters, and knew what the slaveowners' response would be.
Carrol