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 hahaheehaha

The title basically sums it up. If I were a slave owner and wanted to free all my slaves, was that usually frowned up in society, or am I free to do what I want without "rocking the boat"?

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Follow up question, has a situation like that ever happened in the Deep South in the 1840s or earlier? If so, how did these free slaves avoid being poached by neighboring plantations that dominated the region?