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The Brilliant Idiots

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The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act

The government paid owners an average of about $300 equivalent to $8,000 in 2000 per slave. The people who were freed were not compensated in order to get any assistance for the transition today. You're doing this to avoid war. That like and sometimes and sometimes you have to make incredibly difficult decisions to avoid loss of life.

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