Tensions Between The Anti-Slavery And Prevention Of The Civil War

"From 1861 and 1865 the United States engaged in a civil war. Tensions between the Anti-Slavery Northern states and the pro-slavery Southern states erupted into a Civil War after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860." The divided states, that of the North and South, fought against each other, to finally end the dispute whether to accept or abolish slavery. Abraham Lincoln was the leader for the North side and Stonewall Jackson was the leader for the South. The Civil War could have been avoided if both sides not discuss, but settle their differences, or even possibly take a vote. First, there are many scenarios that could have prevent the Civil war. Would everything be different if it never occurred? The South possessed
a 'secret weapon' that it didn't realize it had. What the South should have done, in the late 1850's, is to have realized that slavery was a dying institution anyway and that it could get by for the time being with half or a third less slaves than it had. The South could have granted immediate freedom to half of its slave population with the condition that after manumission they couldn't remain in the
South, but would have to move up North. If politically astute, the South could have 'spun' this relocation requirement as simply a way of spreading 'diversity' to the North.

With this, the abolitionist movement up North would have stopped 'dead in its tracks', in my opinion, and over 700,000 lives would have been saved, and all slaves would have been gained freedom anyway before 1900 due to international pressure.