Atlas Person of the Century: 19th

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Abraham Lincoln, for leading what was the freest nation of Earth into a war to dissolve state sovereignty.

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Abraham Lincoln, for leading what was the freest nation of Earth into a war to dissolve state sovereignty. saving the greatest nation on earth.

From what, may I ask?

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Abraham Lincoln, for leading what was the freest nation of Earth into a war to dissolve state sovereignty. saving the greatest nation on earth.

From what, may I ask?

From being split, and irrevocably weakened.

Just like King George III tried to keep the British Empire from being split and irrevocably weakened.

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Even so, the South's secession to protect slavery, if that was the reason, would have been completely nonsensical. Since the South would have been an independent nation, the North would have had no obligation under the Fugutive Slave Act to return escaped slaves. I seriously doubt that slavery would have lasted until 1865 without the war.