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yardwork

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28. The Confederate States would not have abolished slavery.

Reply to intelpug (Reply #21)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 08:15 AM

Jan 2025

They were created to perpetuate and extend the reach of slavery into the new western states.

You've read the old propaganda that was created after the war to excuse and blur the truth.

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