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OTL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/project/context/ In 1833 Parliament finally abolished slavery in the British Caribbean, Mauritius and the Cape. The negotiated settlement brought emancipation, and the grant of £20 million in compensation, to be paid by the British taxpayers to slave owners.

Could the Civil War have been avoided if the Southern States had been similarly compensated?
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