Willis is an indoctrinated nutjob liberal who believes the lie that the war was "all about freeing the slaves" which has been repeatedly shot out of the water.  Lincoln started the War with his illegal invasion of sovereign States to force them back into the "voluntary" union for the continued collection of excessive taxes.  Lincoln issued his useless, and non-effective, Emancipation Proclamation halfway through the War because the North was getting trounced by much smaller numbers from the South.  The EP was issued to cause slave insurrections in the South, which did not happen, and to make it appear to Europe (which was on the brink of aiding the South) that the US was fighting a "moral campaign" to free the slaves. The EP freed not one solitary soul. Those who deny this need only to actually read it. The "Great Emancipator"?  What a joke! If it was about slavery, why were the 420,000+ slaves in the union not freed first?  Government indoctrination has brainwashed millions.