14h 1min, dec 20, 1860 y - South Carolina secedes
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When the ordinance was adopted on December 20, 1860, South Carolina became the first slave state in the south to declare that it had seceded from the United States. ... — Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina
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14h 1min, dec 20, 1860 y
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~ 164 years ago