The one really nuclear step the federal government could have taken - had it been securely controlled by opponents of slavery - would be to ban the interstate slave trade. Would have strangled slavery in Virginia & Maryland quickly.https://twitter.com/RBrookhiser/status/1424539923802214409 …
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I just don’t see a scenario where a tiny federal government successfully enforces that outside the major port towns (and probably not even there), and less of one where the cantankerous southerners allow it to happen
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