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Old 05-16-2007
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Re: NORTH or SOUTH

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Originally Posted by Benjamin View Post
While salvery would have been abolished, I belive that a system of apartheid may have developed, seeing that blacks would not have had constutional protection, as they did in the U.S.

~Ben
such a system did develop even though the north won. When the South diverged from the heavy agricultural system and agriculture in general became more mechanized, it most likely would have abandoned segregation and became more liberal, as it did.
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