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You mean the alternate universe of <checks notes> Brazil? They progressively outlawed slavery over the course of 1870 through 1890 without a civil war. The US
by potato3732842 1y ago
You mean the alternate universe of <checks notes> Brazil?
They progressively outlawed slavery over the course of 1870 through 1890 without a civil war. The US probably could've done just about the same over a shorter period (because the US was richer and could have paid its way through a lot of the opposition faced in Brazil).
- dragonwriter 1y ago> You mean the alternate universe of <checks notes> Brazil? Brazil had the same Constitution, Senate Rules, and balance of power between slave and free states as the pre-Civil War USA?
- cafard 1y agoLincoln favored projects of emancipation with compensation to the slaveholders. In a letter of March 14, 1862, he writes that the paying off all claims in Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia, Kentucky, and Missouri, at $400 per head (his term, not mine) would cost less than the expense incurred in eighty-seven days of war. The project went forward only in the District of Columbia.