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Why wasn't slavery outlawed quickly after the US started? I would expect the free non-slaveholders would vote against slavery, since they wouldn't want to compete with slaves, and they'd outnumber the slaveholders.
As I understand it, people suspected something like the Civil War would happen if they tried that.
A lot of compromises were made to forge a single country out of this mess.