-=> Quoting Sondra Ball to Jim Casto <=-
 JC> So, if you had been running the country in 1865, which of these three
 > options would you have chosen when some of the Southern states left the
 > Union?
 SB> Hmmm ... these were good questions, but I believe they would have had
 SB> to be answered a few years earlier than 1865.
 
 So, make the year 1776... Would you have simply said: "O.K., there won't
 be a United States. All the colonies are on their own."?
 
 Had two separate countries? One with slavery and one without?
 
 Let's assume for the sake of discussion that the result was two separate
 countries. Would either have succeeded in "revolution"? Assume they both
 did. What would happen in later years? Let's say some slaves escaped from
 the South U.S. and fled to the North U.S. Would the South U.S. attack the
 North U.S. to get them back? How about the territory to the west? Which
 country would expand and control the "new" territory to the west?
 
 Jim
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