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Everyone knew that the interest in slavery was somehow the cause of the Civil War
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What Abraham Lincoln actually said
- Abraham Lincoln 16th president of the United States (1809 to 1865)
These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war.
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↗Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865 (ed. Merwin Roe, 1907)gutenberg.org
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