text: O: "It is not clear whether or not Lincoln committed war crimes by brushing the south's right of self-determination aside and enslaving them to the north's wishes."
  
  Your statement concerning the "south's right of self-determination" was only for the whites of the south. Did you know that there were slaves there as well.
  
  And your statement that Lincoln "enslaved" the south would have - had you written it in history class - earned you an F.