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In Gary B. Nash's Book The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America, he says that the USA had the chance to end slavery in the 1780s, because there was much more abolitionist sentiment, the south was too weak to secede, America had the resources to compensate former slave owners and abolitionists were not yet opposed to that, and many southerners were worried about a slave revolt similar to the Haitian Revolution. What are your thoughts on this?
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