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 DC>> Actually, the whole thing started with the compromise on slavery in
 DC>> the  original Constituion.  The lines were drawn then.  The 1850s
 DC>> were when those  lines became rigid and volatile.

 BA> People also don't want to talk about the hundreds if not 
 BA> thousands of southerners
 BA> who left the country after Lee surrendered.  Some years 
 BA> back I read about a colony
 BA> of their descendants living in Brazil, I'm sure there are 
 BA> others. 

 Did they take their slaves with them?

 Were they that dedicated to slavery that they would leave the
 country rather than let their slaves go free? If so, the country
 was better off without them, but the slaves still suffered.

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