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OTL the loyal states were in many ways almost as racist as the southern slave-holding states. Sundown towns dotted the landscape, and free blacks were often barred from serving on juries or voting. During the New York draft riots abolitionists and free blacks were lynched by mobs.

If the Confederacy wins, would race relations in the north worsen, with many people blaming the blacks and republicans for the war? Or is there a chance that equal rights for blacks would be championed by the north, as a means of opposing the CSA? Would there be treaties requiring fugitive slaves to be repatriated? How long does slavery remain in the border states? What happens to the abolitionist movement?
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