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Reply to "six illegal immigrants aressted at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport."

The North had just begun their infant industries...the South was buying machinary from England and other European countries...Lincoln began placing large tariffs on the incoming goods so as to force the South to buy the equipment from the North...Lincoln also wanted to rid slavery from the 27% or so of the southerners who had slaves...he allowed the border states, such as Maryland to keep theirs, afraid if he took their slaves ...they would eventually join the rest of the secession...slavery was not the issue...Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation 3 years after the war began so as to give more blacks a reason to fight....the South already had a strong legion of black soldiers fighting the North...the average black soldier was fighting for a way of life that had nothing to do with slavery.....however, slavery was increased after the invention of the cotton gin...

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