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not redeemed with gold but with His Blood
Logic is absolutely lost in this thread.
But they gave up slavery by their own vote, on their own initiative, 60-70 years before the war started.
That's not the same as a state that literally had to go to Civil War before they gave up slavery.
Los Angeles was 2000 miles from the South and was a Free State from the moment it was founded.
Parts of Missouri are directly between Arkansas and Tennesee.![]()

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