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The Free States Before the Civil War
The period from the revolution to the civil war is that free states are grappling with questions associated with the abolition of race-based slavery. So in a way, it's kind of like processes that we are familiar with about reconstruction are already going on in these free territories before the war. And actually some of the same people who were involved in those debates and discussions and struggles in the period from the 1820s to the 1850s are the same people.