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Not that they necessarily took it well, but it seems like the South was the only place to secede and to fight a war with even the possibility of emancipation happening. Why didn't other places similarly react as angrily? Granted, most of those localities were much smaller and less belligerent and less politically entitled than the South, and had less power (imagine some governor of Jamaica making war against the British empire), but we don't even hear about localized rebellions. Was slavery just so far gone economically speaking in those places? Did the governments compensate the slaveowners?
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