Well, Ron, at the outbreak of the War there had allready begun a vigorous abolitionist movement both in the North as well as the South... The attitudes towar slavery werew slowly but surely evolving and like everything else, things do take time... Given the bitterness after the War, especially by Southerners, after 1776 when the Union troops ended their occupation of the South, blacks suffered from a 8 decades of Jim Crow terrorism.

There are areas in the South even today where there is so much bottled up hatred of "Yankees" by white folks that they tend to continue to harass and hurt their black neighbors...

Now it is not a a better skilled Lincoln could have headed off the War and put used [political pressure to facilitate an atmosphere where more folks in the South would at least give some second thoughts to the slavery issue...

And also consider this, Ron. The South lost a good portion of their "educated" male population ihn the War and it was these people who would have been the folks in the best position to effect cultural and attitudinal changes...

This war should never have happened...

Peace

Bobert