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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
This is an important and easily forgotten point. The CSA made overtures to receptive representatives in Paris and London for support in the war against the North. Both European governments diplomatically told the South slavery would have to be abolished eventually.
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On come on - both of you - with the "the South would have abolished it eventually" argument. In the theory perhaps, but in practice? Blacks were systematically discriminated against in the South for the next 100 years. Segregation was a fact of life. Hell, Alabama had to be forced to admit Blacks in their schools less than 50 years ago!
Don't pretend South was so enlightened.