The American civil war decided something fundamental  it didn't decide, as some people argue, that blacks were equal to whites  this was w one of the least of Abraham Lincoln's concerns  Abraham Lincoln supported in the eighteen fifties, I throw this in for people who  Americ and there's usually an American in the audience who's brought up to believe that Abraham Lincoln walks on the water, you know erm   he actually suffered from syphilis by that's by the way