re: #107 Targetpractice

Which is why we got a civil war out of the slavery issue, because the South was increasingly worried that a rapidly industrializing North would eventually be able to force the matter on them and the federal government was less inclined to continue putting up with their bullshit.

Here are the numbers:

Union: 22 million people
Confederacy: 9 million people, 3.9 million of whom were slaves

The Emancipation Proclamation meant that the South suddenly had 3.9 million people inside their borders that had a powerful interest in seeing them lose.