rightwinger
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Compensating those Democrat slave owners would have been a far better choice, versus 850,000 dead Americans and half the nation destroyed and then, a century of terrible racism. Don’t you think?
If the South hadn’t panicked over the election of Lincoln, I think that is what would have happened.
It would have happened gradually with slaves being allowed to buy their emancipation and funds used to pay for others.
The South would have become like South being like South Africa