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The Union leaders (most, if not all) were abolitionists (anti-slavery). This is because the Union was the northern States, whose economy was not based in agriculture. They did not need slaves. The South leaders were the ones that were pro-slavery. Because of the hatred for slavery in the North, the South tried to secede from the Union, and become they own country, the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln was actually quite neutral about slavery, though. In the end he turned out to be an abolitionist himself. After the Civil war ended in 1865, he made the Emancipation Proclamation.
* I can't speak to the feelings of Union leaders but I must correct misinformation in the above answer. No matter what the feelings in the North about slavery, black people were not welcomed there. Free people of color were seen as low wage competition for jobs held by white workers. Also, many northern family dynasties were built on the backs of slave labor so the self-righteous indignation is very hypocritical.
Not all Southern leaders or Southerners in general were pro slavery. The average southerner could not afford to own slaves and as sharecroppers were not much more than slaves themselves. It was not because of this so-called hatred for slavery in the North which led to secession it was in fact the same cause as the American Revolution.... TAXES! The federal government levied excessive import and export tariffs on cotton, wheat, tobacco and many other things produced in the South and not felt by Northern business people. After nullification attempts and the southern politicians trying to get the tariffs reduced they had no other choice but to do as our Founders and declare their independence.
Lincoln wasn't really neutral about slavery at all. He said "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause.". So as you can see not neutral at all. The last correction I have for the first answer is that Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 and not in 1865 after the war. This document didn't free one single slave as it states, " all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free;", meaning that only in the CSA controlled areas were slaves freed. Not in New Orleans which was under Union control, not in parts of TN, AL, GA and others which had fallen or remained under Union control. Only in the CSA where Lincoln had NO authority. It was the passage of the 13th amendment to the US Constitution which freed slaves.
I know this has been lengthy but it is not as simple as "they fought over slavery".
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∙ 12y agoHayes they were proslavery because they wanted to keep slaves
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