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This could not have been effected under our constitution but for the Rebellion, so that, in truth, South Carolina, unwittingly, led to the only way by which slavery could be abolished in the present century.
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Sherman posits that the Civil War inadvertently led to the abolition of slavery, which could not have occurred without the Rebellion.
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