How Slavery Almost Didn't End in 1865
Note: Originally published in The Daily Beast on December 6, 2015.
The American Civil War could have ended without the abolition of slavery. Such an outcome is difficult to imagine because Americans tend to frame the end of slavery as part of the nation's inevitable march toward greater freedom. The Civil War somehow seems incomplete without it, but at a…
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