Let us now turn to that central figure around which all the incidents of the bloodiest war In history revolvedthe immortal. the incomparable Abraham Lincoln. There is not a single doubt in the mind of any reputable historian that the institution of slavery was the direct cause of the Civil War. But for the deportation as slaves of these unfortunate people from the jungles of their native home in Africa to the Atlantic seaboard and finally to the cottonflelds of the South. the disruption of the Union would never have been threatened and Robert E. Lee would never have had occasion to make surrender of his army to Ulysses S. Grant.
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