Underground Airlines
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Underground Airlines is a 2016 science fiction novel by American writer Ben Winters, set in a contemporary alternate-history United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham L
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Crittenden Compromise
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The Crittenden Compromise was an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, and thereby make it unconstitutional for future congresses to end slavery. It
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…United States where the American Civil War never occurred because Abraham Lincoln was assassinated prior to his 1861 inauguration and a version of the Crittenden Compromise was adopted instead. As a result, slavery has remained legal in a group of Southern states known as the "Hard Four": Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi…
Senator Crittenden (1855); photo by Mathew Brady
Southern cartoon depicting critically the Crittenden Compromise as "legislative quackery" by "Doctor North" (1860s)