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A long title, I know. Anyway, given how mich of antebellum US national politics was driven by the desire to maintain a balance between slave states and free states, and that balance was maintained until 1850.

What if, prior to 1850, one or more of the classic slave states (so not a northern state that was just really gradual with emancipation) voted in favor of emancipation? How would this throw the whole system upside, how would the politicians cope, would it make secession more likely or less?
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