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Originally Posted by Ohio

I would only add that it was the Democratic (both the North and the South) Party which resisted emancipation.

I would never take the blame for anything the Democrats have done!

Only the most radical Republicans were for emancipation prior to the war. As more and more people were killed many of the Northerners supported emancipation as a way to punish the South. Emancipation was also seen as a strategic way to weaken the South's ability to fight. So I would not give the moral high ground to the Republicans.