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pbrower2a
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« on: May 07, 2017, 09:07:37 AM »
No. Too tied to slavery to do anything against it.

The British had the right model for emancipating slaves, and Lincoln knew it. The problem was that the Southern politicians would have had nothing to do with it.
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