Rather it took the deaths of 4% of the US Population to end slavery

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Submitted by Lyle (United States), Dec 17, 2013 14:11

It took the civil war to end it, all the agitators did was bring the war on. The war killed 4% of the us population at the time, equivalent to 12 million today. That indeed was the blood Lincoln was talking about in the second inagural.

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