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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Replying to @baseballcrank
Any genuinely nuclear option that threaten to end the peculiar institution would've just kicked off the Civil War, no?
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