How Slavery Really Ended in America

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/magazine/mag-03CivilWar-t.html?pagewanted=1&hp

1. Read the article from the NY Times.
2. With Civil War was the end of slavery inevitable?  Why?
3. Had General Butler not acted as he did, would President Lincoln have ever changed his position on slavery?  Why?
4. Would the general perception of slavery have changed in the North?  Why?
5. Did General Butler's view change?  Why?
6. Write three page essay.  Double spaced, #12 font size, New Times Roman.  One inch indentation around the page.