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I once read an insane book about how the slavery crisis of the 1820's could have gone badly. The book had a brutal war involving the South seceding, it abolished slavery, but the South somehow felt they won even when they obviously lost. In OTL, the Virginia Compromise* was made shortly after the war of 1812, which freed elderly slaves and prevented slavery from expanding west of the Mississippi. Later, the Boll Weevil struck, which destroyed the cotton economy. Abolition happened towards the end of the century as pastors denounced slavery as un-Christian, deflation of slave prices came, and industrialization.
OOC:kissingheart:this compromise never happened
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