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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (399263)2/10/2019 7:02:38 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 541731
 
Only if that progressive person was really dumb and wanted to lose the war. If the slaves in the border states that didn't secede had been freed, then they plausibly would have gone with the South, adding men and factories to them. As it was, MD, KY and MO were teetering on the edge anyway.

>>A very progressive person (an Abolitionist) would have freed all the slaves, not just the ones owned by the other side.
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