It's a mixed bag because if we did split into two or more countries a lot of people in the shittier half would instantly lose any semblance of civil rights That was what was at stake the first time they "suggested" splitting uphttps://twitter.com/benjanun_s/status/1323846771265556480 …
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1) Well that's awfully nice of you, I'm sure the whole reason slavery persisted in the first place was enslaved people just weren't motivated enough to try to escape it Not like mounting paranoia from slaveowners about escapes en masse would have any consequences for them
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2) If this actually worked, and this led to the Southern economy actually being undermined to any degree, they would just instantly declare that war you were trying to avoid
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Was there a large enough contingent of anti-war anti-slavery Northerners to make that an even remotely plausible hypothetical?
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No not really
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