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In his novel The Guns of the South, Harry Turtledove had the South win the Civil War. And then, Robert E. Lee ran for and won the presidency of the Confederacy. He proposed the following as a phase-out:

Abolitionists could put their money where their mouth was. If a society of abolitionists or an individual abolitionist wanted to free a particular slave, a qualified appraiser would set the price of the slave, and the current owner would be duty-bound to accept this price.

What if something like this was tried earlier, say, like 1820?
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