The riots makes me wonder about the Civil War. I mean to say that the whole abolition thing seems a bit off because slavery is in the Torah. There are Jewish slaves and gentile slaves. So the question whether slavery is just or not seems settled. But I can also see the point of Abraham Lincoln in wanting to keep the Union together.
Jewish Slaves go free after six years. Gentile slaves go free only with money, a document, or injury. כסף שטר או ראשי אברים.
This would settle once and for all the question about the Civil War. It was wrong. And modern events prove it. Truth always rises to the surface, no matter how long it takes.