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Re: Wars for Abolition
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"Why wasn't the United States able to abolish slavery without bloodshed?"

Cotton!

Lots of money to be made in Cotton.

The South staked every thing on that one resource, believed that Europe couldn’t survive without it. The south was gambling that France & England would come to their rescue.
The South didn’t evolve into an industrial conglomerate like the North did, Agriculture and Cotton was their claim to fame. They didn’t like a centralized Government’s social experiment of ending slavery. You can cry “States Rights” all you want, they were going to keep slavery.

Kevin Dally

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