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I read today an article where said Washington even he though slavery was against the American principles he refused to pronounce about the question to avoid tensions with the southern states: already in the first years of the USA were menaces of secession if slavery was abolished...

So, i will ask what will happened if Washington instead proclaimed the abolition of slavery? The southern states will accept? Or it will be already civil war?

To tell the truth, writing this thread will give me the idea to write a short TL ( yes, even if i said before there are too many American TLs and bla-bla, but it is too intriguing: war of secession during Washington's presidency, while Europe was in havoc for Revolutionary France...), but we will see later.

Also, i read Washington freed his slaves after his death ( or to better say, after the death of his wife Martha), but it is true he was the only Virginian to emancipate his slaves until 1861-1865?
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