Had the U.S. compensated the slave owners and then voted to end slavery the cost at $800 per slave would have been approximately 3.2 billion dollars. Estimates for the cost of the war run to 5.2 billion dollars. Revised modern figures calculate 750,000 to 1,000,000 dead. Large numbers of Southerners, whites and blacks lived in poverty for one hundred years. The scars of war are still evident today.

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