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To: ravinson
That's why it was legal in the states that didnt secede from the Union?
36 posted on 08/22/2002 2:52:04 PM PDT by PJeffQ
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To: PJeffQ
That's why it was legal in the states that didnt secede from the Union?

Slavery was still legal in the border states in 1861 but threatened with impending abolition by the rising Radical Republican tide. That's why almost all of the slaveholders in the border states supported the Confederacy.

38 posted on 08/22/2002 3:13:03 PM PDT by ravinson
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