To be fair, it was 'to preserve the Union'. Lincoln famously said that if he could have done that without freeing a single slave he would have.
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Right, but again, the question is framed in a deliberately misleading way to downplay the role of slavery as a cause of, or the end of slavery as a result of, the Civil War. Why did the Union require preservation in the first place?
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No argument from me. But when you're dealing with traps set by people with black and white 'textbook ideas' you can't be colourful and introduce nuance and overview and all that woke stuff. Just answer the specific question they asked, and let them find another way to block you from employment.
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