The North side, which were the Confederates wanted to abolish slavery because it went against the rights of everyone as stated in the Constitution. The South side, which was the Union wanted to keep slavery. A Confederate soldier once wrote, “I never want to see the day when a negro is put on an equality with a white person” (page 52). The Confederates would dehumanize blacks. The president during this time, Abraham Lincoln knew that the only way that this war was to end and unite the nation was by ending slavery completely. Lincoln wanted to give “all the rights and privileges as American citizens” to the slaves (page 53). A Confederate once wrote, “I did not volunteer my services to fight for a free negroes country but to fight for a free white mans free country…” (page 55). The South did not like the idea at all of blacks being freed, which caused tensions with the North. The North fought for “human rights and human liberty” of slaves (page 62). McPherson describes how slavery was one of the causes of the Civil War in chapter