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Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Missouri, all Slave States, failed to pass ordinances of secession; but they were all represented in the so-called congress of the so-called Confederate States.
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Grant notes that several slave states did not secede from the Union despite being represented in the Confederate Congress.
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