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To: DiogenesLamp; woodpusher; central_va; jmacusa
“The South would have kept slavery for between 20 years and 80 years to the best of my estimation.”

The answer to the question is unknown and unknowable. Your response is as good as anyone's.

History does record this: Virginia approved the 13th amendment before Ohio, Indiana and Nevada.

Louisiana approved the 13th before Minnesota, Wisconsin and Vermont.

Tennessee and Arkansas before Connecticut and New Hampshire.

South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia before Oregon and California.

Florida before Iowa and New Jersey.

Texas before Delaware.

These were ostensibly free and fair approvals by the states as required by the U.S. Constitution.

There may be those that say the approvals were sham approvals done under threats of bayonets; but that would be a separate indictment of the blue states.

76 posted on 07/08/2023 5:50:41 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: jeffersondem
History does record this: Virginia approved the 13th amendment before Ohio, Indiana and Nevada.

Louisiana approved the 13th before Minnesota, Wisconsin and Vermont.

Tennessee and Arkansas before Connecticut and New Hampshire.

South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia before Oregon and California.

Florida before Iowa and New Jersey.

Texas before Delaware.

Well of course they did. Vichy governments do what they are told to do by the dictators controlling them.

The Southern states all had Vichy governments. They didn't have *REAL* governments elected by the citizens.

These were ostensibly free and fair approvals by the states as required by the U.S. Constitution.

If you call ratifications made under an occupation army "free and fair", which I don't.

The people who think the North was in the right would have us believe the South fought for four years to keep slavery legal, and then just gave it up on a vote?

That's nonsense. Clearly this was a ratification made under duress.

89 posted on 07/09/2023 4:55:36 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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