minionofmidas
Lewis Trondheim
Atlas Institution
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« on: July 30, 2006, 05:07:15 AM » |
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None. It's really hard to picture a man less anti-slavery than, say, Douglas, winning after 1860.
Slavery would have survived longer than it did, of course, but it would have been a marked legal concept from 1860 onwards to its final abolution, probably in the 70s or 80s, possibly via gradual emancipation. (Of course, from an international perspective, it was just that from about the late 1830s.)
pace Ernest, it doesn't really matter why the South does not secede, whether it's a Douglas win or an abortive secession by SC and, say, GA with noone else following suit that is resolved bloodlessly, or any scenario in between.
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