So - and this is a very broad shallow brush statement since I haven't read all the stuff listed (yet). The primary driver of the Civil War was Southern States resisting the, in their minds, over controlling nature of the Northern states (states rights versus Fedal rights ((laws, taxes, strong federal power, etc.))?
Did Lincoln (or the US Government) use the 'slavery' platform to incite in the South in to a war they couldn't win (I'm sure the North realized the resource advantage) to settle who was "in charge" once and for all - and unify (in a strange way) the country?
The states rights arguments were there from the outset. Slavery came into the fore for the North later as the war ground on.
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