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To: jmacusa

Not for a long time. As long as cash crop agriculture was profitable, slavery would have continued to exist in the Confederacy. It would have taken an Amendment to the Confederate Constitution to allow its member states to outlaw the institution.


24 posted on 09/02/2018 2:30:04 PM PDT by Bull Snipe (")
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To: Bull Snipe
They could have outlawed it without having to have seceded.
29 posted on 09/02/2018 10:13:21 PM PDT by jmacusa (Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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