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Fuck polling on human right issues. The civil rights movement was never popular in the polls. Even freeing slaves across all of "Americans" before the Civil War was never popular.
So unpopular, in fact, that it caused a civil war ;)
Not in the rewriting of history way. The civil war was over slavery, however, the confederates shot first because they knew waiting any longer would have them loss popular support. Lincoln never openly stated his parties desire to end slavery until the confederacy left the union.
It was more or less implied, slavery was a hot topic since the inception of america so much a 'compromise' was baked into the constitution. Abolishing slavery outright wasn't going to happen in an instance. But what Lincoln campaign on was essentially abolishing slavery for all new states, which meant future free state senators would quickly out number slave states, and the balance of power no longer favors the slave states, which means it was only a matter of time. Thats why the slave states rebelled. They knew their reins on america was over.