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If any states try to secede in order to keep people as slaves, I would support another civil way to prevent it.
by spankalee 7y ago
If any states try to secede in order to keep people as slaves, I would support another civil way to prevent it.
- jMyles 7y agoI don't want to get into a big thing, but I take issue with the idea that this was the motivation for support (in the Union government) for the war. We remember Lincoln as an emancipator, but his words and actions don't support that. He was an advocate of institutional racism and drove away the people who actually wanted to end slavery, whether in peace or by war. He spent much more time discussing and devising his plan to deport and colonize all black people than he ever did working to end slavery. I believe that our country missed a great opportunity to take an actual abolitionist position, which was being articulately and powerfully communicated by plenty of leaders who worked in better faith than the government ultimately did. I also believe that this missed opportunity is a substantial part of the reason that we still endure slavery today under the guise of a criminal justice system.
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