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The Real Lincoln Conventional historians justify Lincoln's war against the South because it abolished slavery. But DiLorenzo writes, Lincoln opposed abolitionists and favored shipping blacks back to Africa, and he made clear he was fighting the Civil War "to save the Union." The book tells us that there was nothing inevitable, necessary, or worthwhile about the Civil War, in which 620,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands more were maimed, much of the Southern economy was …

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