But all the concomitants and outgrowths of slavery and State sovereignty, doctrines which lie at the foundation of secession, and beliefs which reject the possibility of free negro labor, or the prudence of conferring legal rights upon free negroes, remained in full strength.
Reid argues that the ideologies supporting slavery and state sovereignty remained strong even after the war.
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