All right, we’re officially going around in circles if you think secession meant the south knew they were giving up slaves.
That’s enough.
All right, we’re officially going around in circles if you think secession meant the south knew they were giving up slaves.
That’s enough.
I’ve posted statements by Lincoln and others that that would be the effect of secession. Something very like that did happen in Brazil when a couple of Brazilian states abolished slavery. Without an effective enforcement mechanism, slavery collapses. That’s why the Berlin Wall was built. East Germany was collapsing. Their slaves were simply leaving.