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Why Did The North And South Seceded?
If the South seceded, the North and South would both be benefited. The North would have changed into a country with social and economic policies similar the ones in Canada or European countries. The South would have half an economy based on slave labor or an economy based on free labor. If Lincoln had let the 11 Southern states away, Southern blacks eventually would have won their freedom. They may have had to switch arms, but only a few could argue.
Lincoln freed the slaves in 1863 but it wasn’t until the 1960s that blacks in the South actually had the right to vote and it was not until the 1950s that they gained equal access to the public. Few people argued that blacks would have to wait longer to achieve these elemental rights. Lincoln kept

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