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I'm a plantation owner in the South around the early 1800's. I've been swayed by abolitionists and want to free all my slaves. Will I get push back from my friends and plantation neighbors? Will society ostracize me? Will I be getting death threats?

by /u/hahaheehaha in /r/AskHistorians

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