The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Civil War - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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What if the Confederacy had won recognition from Britain in 1862 and survived the war? His rather frightening answer was that the three great centers of slavery in the Americas — the American South, Cuba and Brazil — plus the smaller plantation economy of Dutch Suriname, would not have abolished slavery when they did.
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In all likelihood, without a Union victory, slavery would have remained a central institution underpinning global economic growth until possibly the present day.
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there is no doubt that the federal government effectively protected transatlantic slave traders in the half-century before 1861 and that the outbreak of the Civil War just as effectively removed that protection.
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